Artificial Intelligence and Digital Curation - Opportunities and Risks for Libraries.
Artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning is one of the most important technological trends of recent years. Find out what opportunities and risks it has at the 17:15 colloquium by the ETH Library on November 24, 2022.
For libraries, artificial intelligence and machine learning open up new opportunities, for example in the automated indexing and curation of digitised documents through full text recognition (OCR), image classification and semantic enrichment. Due to the predominantly historical nature of the documents, however, this also poses special challenges, so that AI technologies widely used in research and industry usually still have to be adapted or even further developed for the domain before they can be used in libraries.
In this 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library, Clemens Neudecker (Project Manager Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesit) presents the opportunities of current AI procedures against the background of experiences and applications at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and also addresses risks such as ethical, legal and social aspects of dealing with AI as well as digital curation technologies in the field of cultural heritage.
The 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library offers a platform for further education and discussion of topics related to libraries, museums and archives. The formula: a 30-minute lecture + a 30-minute discussion + small-group discussion = inspiration for our daily working lives.
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