Zugang gestalten! Künstliche Intelligenz

In the organizer's words:

The central theme of the 15th edition of "Shaping access!" is artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence has been dominating the social, political and legal debate for some time now.

AI influences the recording, indexing, cataloging and findability of cultural heritage collections. It has an impact on art and enables new production processes. What opportunities and risks does this entail? The results of algorithms are hardly or not at all comprehensible and the technology enables manipulation on an unprecedented scale.

This raises new and fundamental questions about access to cultural heritage:

What ethical principles should apply to the use of artificial intelligence in the field of cultural heritage? What role do traceability and transparent sources play? What needs to be considered when dealing with sensitive data? What role do traditional cultural heritage institutions play in this? To what extent should, may or must digitized cultural heritage collections be used as training data for AI models - and by whom?

Participants will address these questions in numerous presentations, discussions, in-depth groups and a "market of opportunities". The German National Library, with its many years of experience in indexing using artificial intelligence, will be represented by Maximilian Kähler with his presentation "Indexing and AI - results from four years of the AI project at the DNB".

A varied supporting program of guided tours and evening events will accompany the technical impulses of the conference.

On October 22, there will be a reception at the Leipzig City Archives followed by the award ceremony for the "Riegel - KulturBewahren" prize, which this year goes to "Zugang gestalten!".

On Thursday evening, October 23, the conference participants will visit the German Museum of Books and Writing for the exclusive opening of the exhibition "Forget it? Futures and histories of knowledge storage. A journey through time in the culture of memory", which was conceived in cooperation with the German Literature Institute.

Further information on the program: https://zugang-gestalten.org/programm-2025/

The conference series "Shaping access! - More responsibility for cultural heritage" is a contribution to the discourse on the opportunities, obstacles, challenges and changes associated with digitization for libraries, archives and museums and their relationship to other institutions, initiatives and commercial enterprises.

The conference is sponsored by the German Federal Archives, the German National Library, the German Film Institute & Film Museum, the German National Committee for Monument Protection, the German Digital Library, the Research and Competence Centre for Digitization Berlin, iRights e.V., the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. and the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

Further information on the conference series: https://zugang-gestalten.org/uber-uns/

The event will be broadcast in parallel via livestream.
Excluded are the evening events, the in-depth events and the Market of Opportunities. No registration is required to participate via livestream (link follows).

Information and contact

Venue: Lecture hall, German National Library in Leipzig
and virtually (link follows).
Costs: Free admission.
Registration at https://zugang-gestalten.org/anmeldung/
Accessibility: The rooms in which the event takes place are barrier-free accessible.
Contact: veranstaltungen@dnb.de