I had the pleasure to briefly discuss my work on utilising #Wikidata for sharing knowledge about cultural artefacts, exemplified by Arabic periodicals, at #MSUGlobalDH. Slides are available at http://tillgrallert.eu/slides/dh/2026-gdhs/.
"How do we create a community that doesn't just study the margins, but also builds within them?"
Reframing the romanticization of volunteer knowledge work in DH and internet contexts: the romanticization is hiding precarity.
"This is the shadow in the shadow library"
I love this turn of phrase: AI Companies are "Cannibalizing the Commons"
Listening to Evelin Heidel's keynote.
Love this critique of AI tools: the structural problems remain (as AI companies tell us they're democratizing knowledge). The labor that makes those tools work is pushed away, and the clean up is done by volunteers.
Also, I love how accessible this multi-lingual conference is. Props to the interpretation team!
There is so much #MinimalComputing being discussed at the conference.
I think it is radical (and so helpful for scholars who want to refuse big data ideologies) to say "yes we could use a supercomputer for this, but we choose not to use them"