“Rethinking Collections as Data in the Age of GenAI” an open lecture by Giulia Osti on 4th of November
HDSM is excited to announce an upcoming presentation on Rethinking Collections as Data in the Age of GenAI by Giulia Osti (School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin). The event is scheduled on the 4th of November, 16:15-17:55 CET, and it held in a hybrid format with the possibility to attend online via the Zoom platform. To attend, registration is required via the Eventbrite platform. A Zoom link will be distributed to the registrants closer to the date of the lecture.
About the speaker: Giulia Osti is a PhD candidate funded by the d-real (Research Ireland) programme in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the intersection of data and artificial intelligence ethics within the context of digital cultural heritage, with a particular emphasis on the evolution and development of the Collections as Data movement. She is also a member of the Europeana Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Datasets Working Group and an editor for The Programming Historian (English edition), with a technical and critical background in data science and AI.

Abstract of the lecture is as follows:
As memory institutions increasingly adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) to organise, describe, and mobilise collections, we are confronted with new tensions around responsibility, interpretability, and representativeness. Heritage data practices — how data is produced, structured and reused in the space of digital cultural heritage — have always embedded ethical commitments from those who perform them, but how do these commitments hold when they intersect with AI technologies? The way AI and, more recently, Generative AI (GenAI) may impact these practices remains undertheorised and unevenly addressed. Drawing on the case of the Collections as Data movement, this seminar initiates a discussion on how GenAI and AI both amplify familiar concerns (bias, privacy, and copyright) and generate new ones tied to structural vulnerabilities and hidden asymmetries of power.
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