Workshop Semi-Automatic Subject Indexing at the Berlin State Library

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The team of sub-project 3 “AI-supported content analysis and subject indexing” in the BKM-financed research project Human.Machine.Culture (“Mensch.Maschine.Kultur” / MMK) successfully organized an internal workshop on semi-automatic subject indexing at the Berlin State Library (SBB) on 19 July 2023 (cf. Eberhardt 2011 and Golub 2021 as introductory/additional reading on this topic). How can we employ […]

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Prize Question: Openness vs. Arcane Knowledge in the 21st Century

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In 1798, the Königliche Societät der Wissenschaften (Royal Society of Sciences) in Göttingen published the following prize question in the Reichs-Anzeiger: “How can the advantages that are possible through the wandering of craftsmen be promoted and the disadvantages that occur be prevented?” (“Wie können die Vortheile, welche durch das Wandern der Handwerksgesellen möglich sind, gefördert […]

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Whose Openness? Whose Ethics?

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Openness can be described as one of the logics driving contemporary science and culture. The mechanism behind it is quite simple: Nation-states take a part of their tax revenues and invest them to finance science and culture, in the latter field for example the digitisation of cultural heritage. In return, research organisations and cultural (heritage) […]

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