Reposted by Jörg LehmannStabi Berlin @stabiberlin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Seit wann gibt es das Spiel "Stadt, Land, Fluss"? Antworten auf diese Frage hat Dr. Tarek Saier gefunden - mithilfe von Datensätzen, die bei uns an der #StabiBerlin publiziert wurden und dem klugen Einsatz von #KI. Mehr zu seinem Rechercheprojekt lest ihr hier 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/stadt_land_f...blog.sbb.berlinSeit wann gibt es „Stadt, Land, Fluss?“ Mit Stabi-Daten und KI Antworten finden - SBB aktuellDas Spiel „Stadt, Land, Fluss“ lässt sich in seiner heutigen Form auf die 1930er Jahre datieren; der Name ist spätestens 1937 nachweisbar. Das zugrunde liegende Spielprinzip – Antworten zu mehreren Ka... 041
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Feedback to these publications is most welcome! Find all project results here: mmk.sbb.berlin/deliverables... #bigdata #ML #culturalheritage #ELSI #digitalculturalheritagemmk.sbb.berlinDeliverables – Mensch.Maschine.Kultur 000
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Two results from the project "Human.Machine.Culture" at @stabiberlin.bsky.social published Guidelines for the Documentation of Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) in Cultural Data doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Guidelines for the Publication of Cultural Data for AI Research doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 101
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Conclusion by Bloomberg staff writers Parmy Olson and Carolyn Silverman in an article reviewing the financial tally of generative AI impacts #cost-benefitratio 000
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Bloomberg: The data raise “an uncomfortable prospect: that this supposedly revolutionary technology might never deliver on its promise of broad economic transformation, but instead just concentrate more wealth at the top.“ bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comBloomberg - Business News, Stock Markets, Finance, Breaking & World NewsBloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News 100
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025See the interesting and literally playful study by Tarek Saier here (in German only): illdepence.github.io/slf-origins/ doi.org/10.5281/zeno...illdepence.github.ioSeit wann gibt es Stadt, Land, Fluss?Recherche zu den Ursprüngen von Stadt, Land, Fluss 100
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025A note on the cost-benefit ratio of #chatgpt - a user of one of our datasets (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) calculated the cost of what the use of GPT-5 would have been if the 5 million pages provided by us would have been processed using #OpenAI 's service: $1.2 million (gasp!) @stabiberlin.bsky.socialdoi.orgBerlin State Library (2023). Fulltexts of the Digitized Collections of the Berlin State Library (SBB)The motivation for creating this dataset was to enable research on the basis of fulltexts which are available in a cultural heritage institution on a large scale. Libraries such as the Berlin State Li... 101
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025In the poster session at #CHR2025 starting at 5pm, our dear colleague Michał Bubula will present our short paper entitled "How Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition?" anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... Go there and talk to him since we aim to provide your high-quality research data!anthology.ach.orgHow Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition? A Combination of Ground Truth and Confidence Scores 011
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Well, we Germans had that back in the 1920‘s: A typographic culture war. ‚Modernists‘ used Antiqua, Nationalists used Fraktur. The resulting effect is that you open a book and think you know the mindset of the person who wrote it; which is complete nonsense… 020
Reposted by Jörg LehmannCRETA e.V. @cretaverein.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Morgen, am Donnerstag den 11.12.2025 sind Nils Reiter & Janis Pagel vom CRETA-Verein bei der Poster-Session der CHR2025 Conference in Luxemburg anzutreffen. Sie stellen einen Ansatz zum Thema "Automatic detection and classification of literary character properties in German narratives" vor! #CHR2025 023
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025#FF2025 @danielvanstrien.bsky.social has published his workshop slides on #opensource AI for #GLAM 's danielvanstrien.xyz/slides.html I consider his readworthy contribution as the AI complement to my reflections on open data (and their shades) published here: mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/21/o...danielvanstrien.xyzSlides – Daniel van Strien 020
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Happy to be part of the proceedings with our contribution with the paper "How Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition?" anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... Our colleague Michał Bubula will present a related poster at the #CHR2025 and be available for questions ... Enjoy!anthology.ach.orgHow Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition? A Combination of Ground Truth and Confidence Scores 011
Reposted by Jörg LehmannChristof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025Very cool! The Proceedings for #CHR2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ACH, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities". As an example, you can […] [Original post on fedihum.org] 1512
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Yes, and I saw yours. Will be coming soon around the corner with some 4.500 maps from @stabiberlin.bsky.social … 110
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025And on another note: How come that these stickers can be found next to each other on the same door? 020
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Thank you so much for these slides, Daniel! They add much to the discussion on „Fifty shades of openness“ .. 210
Reposted by Jörg LehmannDaniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Just posted my slides from the AI4LAM #FF2025 workshop on open source AI for GLAMs. Probably slides on their own aren't that useful, but they do feature one of my growing collection of libraries-and-AI memes, so there's that danielvanstrien.xyz/slides.html 273
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Please extend this reading list! #AITrainingData #Commons #OpenAccess #PublicDomain @stabiberlin.bsky.social @europeana.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy @miaout.bsky.social @amsichani.bsky.social 000
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Nikhil Kandpal et al.: The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text, June 2025 doi.org/10.48550/arX... Stefan Baack et al.: Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training, Jan 2025 doi.org/10.48550/arX...doi.orgThe Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed TextLarge language models (LLMs) are typically trained on enormous quantities of unlicensed text, a practice that has led to scrutiny due to possible intellectual property infringement and ethical concern... 100
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Lukas Gienapp et al.: The German Commons – 154 Billion Tokens of Openly Licensed Text for German Language Models, Oct 2025 doi.org/10.48550/arX... Pierre-Carl Langlais et al.: Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training, June 2025 doi.org/10.48550/arX...doi.orgThe German Commons - 154 Billion Tokens of Openly Licensed Text for German Language ModelsLarge language model development relies on large-scale training corpora, yet most contain data of unclear licensing status, limiting the development of truly open models. This problem is exacerbated f... 110
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Thomas Padilla et al: Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals, Dec 2025 www.authorsalliance.org/2025/12/03/r... Paul Keller & Europeana Foundation: Outline for a European Books Data Commons, Nov 2025 openfuture.eu/publication/...authorsalliance.orgReleasing The Public Interest Corpus Principles and GoalsToday, we are pleased to release The Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals. This release builds on the recap of our final planning workshop and anticipates release of our final deliverable la… 100
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025#FF2025 pickings: This year has been extremely productive with regard to the AI & commons debate, as well as in view of the publication of open, public domain datasets. Paul Keller & Europeana Foundation: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI, Dec 2025 openfuture.eu/publication/...openfuture.euImpulse paper: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI – Open FutureThis paper proposes a framework to help cultural heritage institutions decide when and how to share collection data for AI training, balancing open access with managing large-scale AI reuse aligned wi... 200
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025A colleague from the UK and I bring in our two cents on a highly divisive issue, written from the perspective of European CHIs and research libraries. A Position Paper on AI and Copyrights in Cultural Heritage and Research (EU and UK) doi.org/10.5334/johd.290 #genAI #commons #opennessdoi.orgA Position Paper on AI and Copyrights in Cultural Heritage and Research (EU and UK) | Journal of Open Humanities Data 110
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 02/07/2024Two more blog posts on #openness #GLAMs and #opensource Openness & its shades (of grey) mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/21/o... Openness & closed systems mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/25/o... Thus forming a trio of reflections on redefining openness in the 21st centurymmk.sbb.berlinOpenness, and Some of its Shades – Mensch.Maschine.Kultur 000
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Brewster Kahle vs. HF reminded me of WorldCat vs. Anna's Archive, one month ago: www.infodocket.com/2024/02/07/r... Mass scraping of bibliographic metadata from WorldCat ... ... obviously, we have (again) to become more clear of what is "open", "public domain", CC0 etc.infodocket.comReport: “Lawsuit Accuses Anna’s Archive of Hacking WorldCat, Stealing 2.2 TB Data”From Torrent Freak: The complaint accuses Washington citizen Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo and several “John Does” of operating the search engine and scraping WorldCat data. The scraping is equate... 110
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 14/03/2024Sigh. This topic #openness, intellectual property rights #IPR, #genAI is getting really complicated for #GLAM institutions. Wrote a blogpost to chart what's up in the EU and what we currently need: mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/03/13/o... Currently, there is no technical solution to implement an opt out...mmk.sbb.berlinOrientation in Turbulent Times – Mensch.Maschine.Kultur 140
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 26/01/2024New post on the "power hungry magic" of contemporary artificial intelligence published on the blog of the HumanMachineCulture project: Energy, CO2 intensity and sustainability as mostly overlooked issues in the deployment of GPTs. mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/01/26/p... #LLMs #ChatGPT #metaversemmk.sbb.berlinPower Hungry Magic – Mensch.Maschine.Kultur 010
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 18/01/2024Copyright is but one indicator of the value of digital texts, which have gone through a quality filter called ‚publishing houses‘. The same can apply to texts in the public domain, and GLAM institutions should reflect on this. Texts in open access are as well valuable, see doi.org/10.54900/zg9...doi.orgLarge Language PublishingThe New York Times ushered in the New Year with a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. The paper covered the suit, fittingly, as a major business story. OpenAI and its Microsoft patron had, according... 000
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 14/01/2024Dutch National Library restricts access for commercial AI Blocking is done via the robots.txt. Crawlers are thus excluded regardless of copyright. Consequently, public domain material is not accessible to the crawlers. Restriction is selective: Googlebot-image, dataforseo.com, GPTBot, ChatGPT-Userkb.nlKB restricts access to collections for training commercial AIThe KB is taking precautions to prevent the crawling of digital sources for training generative AI. Read what this means here. 21912
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 12/01/2024New post "Feeding the cuckoo" published on the blog of the MMK project, focusing on privacy issues in large language models, especially Google's Bard (my friend, the poet). mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/01/12/f... #LLMs #privacy #ChatGPT #ethics #elsimmk.sbb.berlinFeeding the Cuckoo – Mensch.Maschine.Kultur 000
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 09/01/2024Power Hungry Processing Luccioni, Jernite & Strubell, November 2023 "the most efficient text generation model uses as much energy as 16% of a full smartphone charge for 1,000 inferences, whereas the least efficient image generation model uses as much energy as 950 smartphone charges (11.49 kWh)"doi.orgPower Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of commercial AI products based on generative, multi-purpose AI systems promising a unified approach to building machine learning (ML) models into... 033
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 23/12/2023I wrote a blogpost on LLMs and anthropomorphism for the blog of our project: mmk.sbb.berlin/2023/12/20/h... People who are a bit lonely before Christmas may want to read it…mmk.sbb.berlinHuman-Machine-Cognition – Mensch.Maschine.Kultur 010
Jörg Lehmann @jrglmn.bsky.social · 22/12/2023Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Datasets: doi.org/10.5334/johd.124 What are the characteristics of digital cultural heritage datasets? How would dataset documentation look like? We formulate a series of recommendations and propose a datasheet template, see: doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8375033 0166