Launching the archAIc website
archAIc now has a home on the public web.
Blog
When AI assistants get to *read the archive*.
A patient assistant with infinite reading time isn’t a research replacement. It’s a research multiplier — if it’s wired up to cite its sources. Here’s the shape of that conversation and the rule that keeps it honest.
What's *new*.
Release notes for the people who actually have to live with the system. Faster searches, smaller memory footprint, calmer behaviour under load, and more honest reporting of confidence.
Working with the rest of the *archival world*.
An archive is not an island. The catalogue system, the digital viewer, the preservation backend, the national aggregator — they all already exist, and they all already talk to each other. archAIc speaks the same languages, by design.
Four ways to ask the same *archive*.
A search engine is judged by whether it finds what you want. Different users want different things — and they usually don’t know that until they start looking. Here are the four shapes of search archAIc offers, and the kinds of question each one answers best.