Research Data needs to be connected! Torsten Schrade from the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz is advocating federated #researchdata infrastructur es in his presentation "From Artefacts to Algorithms: Federated Infrastructures, Knowledge Representation and AI in the Humanities" at the DiTraRe Symposium 2025 yesterday at ZKM Karlsruhe.

@nfdi4culture #ditrare #ditrare2025 #digitalisation #rdm #knowledgegraphs #AI #iconclass @tabea @jonatan @sashabruns @sourisnumerique @heikef

Our team member @epoz presented "Now that we have Large Language Models, are metadata standards still necessary?" at the Autumn School 2025 ‘Modern Stained Glass – Metadata – AI’ at University of Münster, Faculty of Catholic Theology

https://zenodo.org/records/17151141

#llms #generativeAI #metadata #iconclass #AI #arthistory #dh #digitalhumanities #culturalheritage #elephant #chatgpt @fiz_karlsruhe @nfdi4culture @NFDI4Memory

Nice! HuggingFace's Daniel van Strien (@danielvanstrien) has released a Qwen2.5-based vision-language model to generate #Iconclass classification codes from images:
https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm

Test space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/iconclass-predictions

Interesting early version release of iconclass-vlm, a specialised small vision language model that automatically generates ICONCLASS metadata for cultural heritage collections by Daniel van Strien
iconclass-vlm: https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm
model evaluation: https://huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/iconclass-predictions
original LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7369076285140144131/

#culturalheritage #llms #AI #classification @nfdi4culture #digitalhumanities #dh #iconclass @epoz

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Today our colleague @epoz presented his work on Image Recognition & Classification Using AI Tools: Experiences from iconclass.org at International IAML Congress in Salzburg, Austria.
On the picture (left to right): Etienne Posthumus, Michaela Vignoli from Austrian Institute of Technology, andQ ntonio Baldassarre of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences.

#dh #digitalhumanities #culturalheritage @nfdi4culture @NFDI4Memory #researchdata #iconclass #iaml2025 #AI @fiz_karlsruhe