European Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Archives

European Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) was adopted by the EU Parliament in 2024 as part of the EU’s legislative process. In this article, the author proposes solutions based on AI tools and methodological approaches applied to Digitised and Born-Digital Archival Records from the point of view of computational approaches to analyze Digital collections. Computational Research methods include a wide range of approaches, including text and Data Mining, Data Visualization, Digital Data Analysis, and the use of Language Models in large numbers of Big Data. The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its subsets, such as Data Mining, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, has expanded the scope of computational Research methods in Digital Archives, from the creator of Records to the Information Digital Specialist (Digital Archivist) and all the way to the end user. Digital collections such as eArchives have been increasingly recognised as an essential source for Multidisciplinary Research in recent decades.