ONB Labs Symposium 2021

24 November 2021, 10:00-17:00 CET.

Vienna, Austrian National Library

The Austrian National Library (ONB) recently presented its Vision 2035, titled "Wir öffnen Räume" ("Opening Spaces"). The ONB Labs Symposium 2021 will take up the theme of openness and relate it to questions concerning openness in Labs of cultural institutions (GLAM Labs):

• What does openness mean for GLAM Labs? Is providing open data enough?

• What are the criteria and requirements for openness?

• What does openness mean for different user groups?

We will discuss these and related questions in three sessions, addressing different perspectives on openness.

In the first session, we will discuss the perspectives and requirements of research and education. We will take a closer look at open data for creative use in the second session, with a special focus on the EU co-funded project "Open Digital Libraries". Finally, we discuss strategies for openness in international GLAM Labs.

Program

Warm Up and Intro (10.00 - 10.45)

ONB Labs Team & Max Kaiser (Austrian National Library) Welcome and Warm Up / Bring your associations (Mentimeter)

Sylvia Petrovic-Majer (OpenGLAM Austria) Open data and open GLAMs: research, policy making and citizen science

Session 1: The perspective of research and education (10.45 - 12.00)

Eva Pfanzelter (University of Innsbruck) The digital cliff of death and the digital dark decades: the challenges for teaching and researching contemporary history

Sarah Oberbichler/ Nina Hechenblaikner (University of Innsbruck) Research with digitized historical newspapers in practice: challenges, methods and collaboration

Walter Scholger (University of Graz/ ZIM) Data for the classes. Requirements, hurdles and ideas for using Cultural Heritage data in DH classrooms.

Lunch (12.00 - 13.30)

Session 2: The perspective of "Open Digital Libraries" (13.30-14.30)

Partners from the project "Open Digital Libraries" (Royal Library of the Netherland, National Library of Estonia, Austrian National Library feat. Seth Weiner) The project "Open Digital Libraries" & creative usage of digital library data

Session 3: International Library Labs (14.45 - 16.30)

Sally Chambers (Ghent University Centre for Digital Humanities; Royal Library of Belgium) Opening up Collections as Data: the international GLAM Labs Experience

Abigail Potter and Eileen Jakeway (Library of Congress) LC Labs: The Library of Congress' Digital Strategy in Action

Ralph Marschall (National Library of Luxembourg) Open Data at the BnL

ONB Labs Team Members (Austrian National Library) The ONB Library Labs so far and from now on

Wrap Up and Discussion (16.30 - 17.00)

Registration (UPDATE 15.11.2021)

The ONB Labs Symposium 2021 will take place as a virtual online conference ("online option ticket").

Due to the current Corona situation in Austria the on-site option has been cancelled.

Online Option (registration open until 23.11.2021, 16.00)

We will use the MS-Teams environment for our online conference. After registration you will receive a confirmation mail. You will receive the link to take part at the web conference 23-11-2021.

-> Book your free ticket for the "online option" by clicking the "Register" button.

Contact

Please visit our website for the program labs.onb.ac.at

Feel free to contact us: labs[at]onb.ac.at

We are looking forward to seeing you at the event on 24 November 2021!