This Special Issue focuses on the theme of  Using Visual AI Applied to Digital  Archives. It is an invitation to work collaboratively, across disciplines and sectors, to address challenges associated with AI and fully embrace the potentialities of technology to make visual archives more accessible in an ethical way.

Can AI help confront colonial photographic archives? Check out this article exploring how semi-automation can augment our capacity to produce knowledge using digital visual archives of contested pasts.

Through a series of interviews with 10 archivists, librarians, and researchers based in the UK and US, the authors show that improved access to medical illustrations is essential to produce new knowledge in the humanities and medical research, as well as to bridge the gap between historical and modern understandings of the human body.