mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06digital humanism | machine learning | digital cultural heritage | Berlin State Library | „Name a bias – we have it!“
#AI #BigData #ML #RStats #digitalHumanities #GLAMs #ResearchData
In the poster session at #CHR2025 starting at 5pm, our dear colleague Michał Bubula will present our short paper entitled "How Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition?"
https://anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0003/how-scalable-is-quality-assessment-of-text-of
Go there and talk to him since we aim to provide your high-quality research data!
Two further results from the project "Human.Machine.Culture" (https://mmk.sbb.berlin/?lang=en) at @stabi_berlin@openbiblio.social published in Open Access
Guidelines for the Documentation of Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) in Cultural Data
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16418345
Guidelines for the Publication of Cultural Data for AI Research
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878097
Feedback to these publications is most welcome!
#bigdata #ML #culturalheritage #ELSI #digitalculturalheritage
My handbook article "Digital cultural heritage as a concept" does not only discuss digitised and born-digital cultural heritage and takes into account thorny legal issues like copyright and intangible heritage, but pushes at the same time the notion of the commons forward:
#FF2025 pickings:
@danielvanstrien@sigmoid.social has published his workshop slides on open source AI for #GLAM institutions
https://danielvanstrien.xyz/slides.html
I consider his readworthy contribution as the AI complement to my reflections on open data (and their shades) published here:
https://mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/21/openness-and-some-of-its-shades/?lang=en
In 2026, I will assist three octogenarians in handling Windows 11 on their brand new machines.
That‘ll be a real challenge.
Does #microsoft compensate me for that?
Will my suffering be sanctified?
Merry Christmas to our orthodox friends everywhere in the world, but especially in two countries.
መልካም ገና - Melkam Gena!
ርሑስ ባዓል ልደት - Rhus ba'el ldet!
Веселого Різдва - Veseloho Rizdva!
May peace come soon to all of you.
Dem stummen numidischen Schreiber Bigdatha (aus dem "Papyrus des Cäsar) stellt der neue Band #Asterix in Lusitanien nun Marcus Zuckergus zur Seite, der sämtliche Informationspapyri der römischen Welt kontrolliert, sowie Elonmus, natürlich...
