Digital Libraries, Philosophy and the Internet #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenAccess #OpenBorders

Berlin, Germany
Joined June 2010
🗞️ Finally documented this massive multilingual newspaper dataset we curated for BigLAM — built from the amazing @Europeanaeu Newspapers collection. - 32B tokens - 12 languages - OCR scores + metadata Find it on @huggingface
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Spannende Diskussion zu gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung von Bibliotheken „Bibliotheken geben Raum - Bibliotheken Rum geben“ mit @JA_Allmendinger @DenizUtlu Ilija Trojanow zum Niedersächsischen Bibliothekstag 2024 in Hannover
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📢The @DHBenelux 2025 #cfp is now open🤩 We're excited to invite submissions for #DHB 2025, hosted @VUamsterdam, 3-6 June! Share your #DigitalHumanities research 🤓💻 🗓️Submission deadline: 15 Dec 2025❗ Details: 2025.dhbenelux.org/call-for-… #DH #DigitalHumanities #CFP
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28 November-13 December 2024 Exhibition Ludwig Wittgenstein: a House for Gretl, at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute "Haus Wittgenstein" in Vienna wittgenstein-initiative.com/… #Wittgenstein #WittgensteInit #WittgensteinHouse
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New post published on the blog of the MMK project on the topic of "objectivity" and the fallacy of conflating #statistics based on #BigData and #machinelearning with truth mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/09/20/on… @stabiberlin @cneudecker #objectivity #ML #RStats
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I still haven’t recovered from seeing this in school 30 years ago. It was already old then, the information partially outdated. But it still gives me shivers watching it today. Amazing what impact 10 min can have. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhv…
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We just published machine-readable vocabulary files for the historical classification system "Alter Realkatalog" (ARK): zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenod… @stabiberlin @cneudecker #automaticindexing #subjectindexing #machinelearning #LIS
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Today we release our first foundation model. OCRonos-Vintage is a 124 million parameters model pretrained end-to-end by @pleiasfr on 18 billion tokens of cultural heritage archives, with nearly SOTA results for OCR correction in English huggingface.co/PleIAs/OCRono…
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Based on an extensive survey paper by @koni_nik, we have released a first version of document-datasets.org , a portal for aggregating links to datasets for historical document processing. Feedbacks are welcome ! #ICDAR2024 #HTR
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Published another blog post on open APIs, data sovereignty, data spaces and the commons, thus adding more shades (of grey?) to the term "openness" mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/21/op… @stabiberlin @cneudecker #OpenAccess #datasovereignty #dataspace #commons
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Take a look at the next steps planned by the @Europeanaeu WG on datasheets co-hosted by the @EurResearch Community & @EuropeanaTech! @sclaeyssens, @KB_Nederland, just presented our work at the @CLARIAH_NL Conference. We welcome feedback and collaborations! pro.europeana.eu/project/dat…
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New post on how to use the OAI interface of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Berlin State Library using R: lab.sbb.berlin/oai-interface… ... including a superb video tutorial produced by my new colleague Ulrike Förstel. @stabiberlin @cneudecker #RStats #OAI #DigitalCollections
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📢 Call for Papers: Computational Humanities Research (CHR2024) 📅 - Join us to showcase groundbreaking work at the intersection of computational, statistical, and mathematical methods with the arts and humanities. 2024.computational-humanitie…
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How much human knowledge has been lost to history? Well, this ancient wonder was razed by the Mongols in 1258 — it's said the Tigris River ran black with ink. Here's what was inside... (thread) 🧵
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Data quality is the new scaling law.
Replying to @AlbalakAlon
Yes! We trained a *new* MPT7B. Exact same arch and code. We were able to hit the same quality with half the number of tokens / training. Its not quite 2x reduction in training (larger tokenizer), but pretty dang close. We evaluated it on our newest version of guantlet.
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Next gen compute for AI looks massive ⁦@appliedmldays⁩
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