ONB Labs Symposium 2024
ONB Labs Symposium “Newspapers as Datasets,” November 25th and 26th, 2024
On November 25th and 26th, 2024, a new edition of the ONB Labs Symposium will take place in the Oratorium of the Austrian National Library! Under the theme “Newspapers as Datasets,” the event will offer four panels over the span of two half-days on the diverse topics of collections as data and especially newspapers as datasets, artificial intelligence and its applications in libraries. The panels will include presentations by researchers in international projects, current work reports by researchers and presentations by staff at national libraries and AI labs.
Preliminary Program
We may make changes in the future and ask you to check this page regularly. Presentation titles in brackets relate to the topic and will still be updated.
Monday, November 25, 2024 |
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| 13:45 | Get-Together |
| 14:00 | Welcome by the ONB Labs Team |
| Panel 1 | |
| 14:10 | Clemens Neudecker (State Library Berlin): Newspapers as Data: What’s the News for AI and DH? |
| 14:45 | Sally Chambers (British Library): [On „Newspapers as Datasets“] |
| 15:10 | Sébastien Cretin (Bibliothèque Nationale de France): The FINLAM Project: Outlining the State of the Art in Newspaper Segmentation |
| 15:35 | Andy Stauder (Transkribus / READ co-operative): Before the LLM Magic Happens: Clean, Controllable, Reliable Data Extraction with End-to-End ATR Models |
| 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| Panel 2 | |
| 16:30 | Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle): What Would News Eye 2.0 Have to Achieve? |
| 16:55 | Maud Ehrmann (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) & Marten Düring (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History): Impresso – Media Monitoring of the Past II. Beyond Borders: Connecting Historical Newspapers and Radio |
| 17:35 | Eva Pfanzelter (University of Innsbruck): Old Challenges, New Solutions? Changing Approaches for Historical Newspaper Research |
| 18:00 | ONB Labs Team: Presentation of New Data Sets, Review and Outlook |
| 18:30 | Buffet |
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 |
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| 9:00 | Get-Together |
| Panel 3 | |
| 9:15 | Tan Lu (Royal Library of Belgium): Recognizing Front Pages of Historical Newspapers: From Deep Learning to AI Explainability |
| 9:40 | Javier de la Rosa (National Library of Norway): The Mímir Project: Newspapers, Books, and LLMs in Norway |
| 10:05 | Simon Mayer (ONB): Bibliotheca Eugeniana: Using Machine Learning in DH-Research |
| 10:30 | Jörg Lehmann (State Library Berlin): Intermediaries, Crafted by Trustees: Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage |
| 10:55 | Coffee Break |
| Panel 4 | |
| 11:25 | Christian Lendl (University of Vienna): The Wiener Salonblatt as a Social Network of the Habsburg Nobility |
| 11:50 | Sarah Oberbichler (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz): Large-Scale Research with Historical Newspapers: A Turning Point through Generative AI |
| 12:15 | Nina Rastinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Love for Lists: Rediscovering an underrated newspaper text type |
| 12:40 | Summary & Final Discussion |
| 13:00 | Self-Paid Joint Lunch (optional) |
Registration
Have we piqued your interest? That’s great! Please register via Eventbrite. Attendance is free. As the symposium will be a physical event, the number of participants is limited.
If you have any questions or need our help with registration, please do not hesitate to contact us at labs@onb.ac.at. Thank you very much!
We are looking forward to an exciting event and to welcoming you to the ONB Labs Symposium soon!
Funding body
The Symposium is financially supported by CLARIAH-AT.