Agata Bloch

We participated in the International Archives Congress, ICA Barcelona 27 – 30 octobre 2025, “Knowing Pasts, Creating Futures.” This global event brought together archivists, historians, digital humanists, and professionals to reflect on how archival practices shape our understanding of the past and help build more inclusive futures. I was especially pleased to organize our roundtable, "Redefining the Portuguese Overseas Archives (AHU): Digital Humanities and AI for Global Knowledge...

Decolonizing Archival Narratives: Exploring Digital Bias in the Catalogs of Portuguese-Colonized African Territories Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, Clodomir Santana This study discusses the intersection between Black/African Digital Humanities, and computational methods, including natural language processing (NLP) and generative artificial intelligence (AI). We have structured the narrative around four critical themes: biases in colonial archives; postcolonial digitization; linguistic and...

Our latest article has been published in Digital Humanities Quarterly: " Unveiling the Critical Nexus of Data Preprocessing and...