Archive professional events 2020 - 2018
2020
Online workshop on experiences with and the possibilities of the
Annif toolkit
3 to 4 December 2020
On 3 and 4 December 2020, the German National Library held an online workshop in the context of the network for machine-based cataloguing processes. The workshop focused on an exchange of experiences with the toolkit Annif.
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Online workshop on computer-supported subject cataloguing
11 to 12 November 2020
Following three workshops at Stuttgart University Library, the fourth conference on computer-supported subject cataloguing took place as an online workshop on 11 and 12 November 2020.
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Translating Europe – translation in times of digital revolution
4 November 2020
Today, more material is being translated than ever before – but in an ever-decreasing number of languages. Globalisation, digitisation and sociocultural influences are changing social and political structures. What types of translation are emerging from digitisation? What effects are political and social change having on language and language awareness? This and other questions were discussed with a wide interdisciplinary public.
Shaping Access 2020
29 to 30 October 2020
“Driving Innovation” was in 2020 the central theme of the conference “Shaping Access!”.
The conference addressed through four thematic categories the new challenges faced in preserving and teaching about cultural heritage: the public domain during the pandemic, innovation during the pandemic, data protection during the pandemic and copyright during the pandemic.
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Beethoven 2020/2030. Music in the Digital Present and Future
22 October 2020
2020 was Beethoven year. His 250th birthday offered many reasons to look back at the past. The special event “Beethoven 2020/2030. Music in the Digital Present and Future” organised by the European national libraries used this occasion as an opportunity to look forward.
Rethinking Culture and Science - Opportunities, Risks and Developments of the Digital Revolution in Europe
7 October 2020
Advances in technology, digitisation, new expectations, and demands from society and the political arena are forcing Europe’s cultural and scientific institutions to deal with changing tasks, challenges and processes. The first session of the virtual conference “Rethinking Culture and Science – Opportunities, Risks and Developments of the Digital Revolution in Europe” highlighted the opportunities and risks of digitalisation and the role that copyright plays in this process. The second session was devoted to studies of noteworthy cases.
Current Standing and Perspectives of Digital Humanities
10 March 2020
Digital humanities are one of the more recently established areas of academic research. Since the year 2000, numerous associations, local networks and working groups have been created in both library institutions and the field of traditional humanities with the objective of focusing on this area in depth. As a memory institution and “central archive”, the German National Library is monitoring this development closely. Moreover, its collections constitute a significant research base for this still comparatively new discipline.
Latest Workshops
- 7 March 2019: Current Standing and Perspectives of Digital Humanities I: In the context of traditional humanities
- 12 April 2019: Current Standing and Perspectives of Digital Humanities II: Digital Humanities Centres
- 20 September 2019: Radical change in evaluation culture? On the inconsistent collection, visibility, accessibility and cataloguing of cultural heritage in the digital domain
2019
Freedom – Art – Community.
14 to 15 November 2019
Bauhaus ideas as questions of the present day.
Bauhaus was not only interested in primary colours, right angles and white walls, but also in models of society, visions of political utopia and social reforms. During a conference closing the Bauhaus anniversary year in Saxony, we asked what Bauhaus still has to tell us with regard to our own political present.
Conference of network for machine-based cataloguing processes
10 to 11 October 2019
Which technologies are now available for the semantic cataloguing of large volumes of text? Experts with scientific, business and practical experience presented and discussed methods, services and applications in the areas of text analytics, machine learning and deep learning.
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Shaping Access!
More responsibility for Cultural Heritage // Pragmatism // 9th International Conference
31 October to 1 November 2019
In 2019, the central theme of the conference “Shaping Access!” was pragmatism in approaches to digitisation. How can content be made available in digital format, and how can cultural heritage be made digitally accessible?
Freelance journalist Henry Steinhau summarised the conference in a comprehensive
report.
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IBG-Forum Wissenschafts- und Buchgeschichte 2019
1 October 2019
The “Forum Wissenschafts- und Buchgeschichte” (Forum for the History of Science and Book History) invited junior researchers in the fields of book, social and media history and the history of science and literature to present projects that are in planning or already complete.
Data lab: programming for cultural studies
16 to 18 September 2019 in Leipzig and 25 to 27 November 2019 in Frankfurt am Main
We equip you to work in the data lab! Our workshop will use specific examples to give you basic skills in programming that will make your day-to-day work with cultural data easier.
IFLA Satellite meeting: Data intelligence in libraries
22 to 23 August 2019
A pre-conference meeting to the 2019 World Library and Information Congress
This event, which precedes the IFLA World Congress 2019, was organised by the IFLA Big Data Special Interest Group in cooperation with the German National Library.
2018
GNDCon2018
3 to 4 December 2018
GNDCon, the first ever convention for those interested in the Integrated Authority File (GND), took place in December 2018. Its motto was “Opening the GND”: From A for archives and M for museums to R for research, S for software applications and W for Wikipedia and Wikidata.
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Conference on preserving digital cultural heritage
28 to 29 November 2018
To mark the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, the German National Library organised a two-day conference on preserving digital cultural heritage, which took place on 28 and 29 November 2018 in Frankfurt am Main.
Last changes:
20.12.2023
