Dreams for the Digital Commons

How are online collections and archives reshaping the future of the open web as a result of new behaviour by AI scraping tools? Read this zine to find out!

This zine is the result of two zine-making workshops on ‘AI and the Digital Commons: Perspectives from online collections & archives’. The two workshops are part of research carried out by the University of Edinburgh. The research investigates the risks that archival bodies and digital collections are facing from AI-driven content extraction tools.

The research is funded by ekip, the European Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries Policy Platform, an interdisciplinary four-year Horizon Europe project running from 2023–2026. ekip is a collaborative platform designed to boost the development of innovation capacity in ecosystems to include the Cultural and Creative Industries. This zine and zine workshops were designed by AIxDESIGN. The in-person zine workshop was hosted by The Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision.