Whose Openness? Whose Ethics?
/0 Comments/by Jörg LehmannOpenness 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) […]
Cultural Heritage Datasets, Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of Non-Intervention
/0 Comments/by Jörg LehmannIt is a well-known fact that machine-learning algorithms exacerbate biases inherent in the datasets on which they were trained. In recent times, this fact has found ample evidence, e.g. in Cathy O’Neill’s book “Weapons of Math Destruction” (2016), in Kate Crawford’s and Trevor Paglen’s “Excavating AI” (2019), or in articles such as “Data and its […]
Perspectives for machine-assisted subject indexing at the Berlin State Library
/0 Comments/by Sophie SchneiderImplications for the library With the constant increase in publication numbers, the question arises how the growing and extensive collections will be indexed in the future. How can an acceptable level of quality be ensured, if the available human resources do not increase at the same rate? To answer this challenge, one option is to […]