“Collections as Data—Biases as Data.” A conference on bias in cultural heritage data, focusing on gender, cultural, and algorithmic biases.
The fourth international ONB Labs Symposium will be held at the Oratorium of the Austrian National Library, accessible via Josefsplatz 1, over the course of two half-days:
November 9, 2026: 2:15 – 8:30 p.m.
November 10, 2026: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Participation is free of charge, but the number of participants is limited.
There will be three sessions and one panel discussion with diverse presentations from international experts, comprising a total of ten presentations from researchers, library staff as well as research project members. For more information please see the detailed agenda below.
We may make minor changes and additions to the agenda in the future and ask you to check the ONB Labs page regularly.
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Highlights
- 22 hours 15 minutes
- all ages
- In person
- Doors at 2 PM
Location
Josefsplatz 1
1 Josefsplatz
1010 Wien
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Agenda
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Monday, Session 1: Gender Biases
14:40: Andrea Gruber (Ariadne, Austrian National Library): Vocabularies as Data: Feminist Knowledge Organization and the Challenges of Comparison – 15:05: Mareike Schumacher (University of Regensburg): Shifting Bias—Corpus Creation and Data Feminism in the Digital Humanities – 15:30: Lisa Teichmann (University of Vienna): Gender Trouble in the ONB – 15:55: Coffee Break
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Monday, Session 2: Cultural & Algorithmic Biases
16:30: Noëlle Sarah Schnegg (Sciences Po, Paris; University of St. Gallen): Bias in Metadata: Reflections from the Living Handbook on Discrimination-Sensitive Metadata Practice – 16:55: Stefan Benedik & Tanja Jenni (Haus der Geschichte Österreich): Counter-hegemonic Collecting in a History Museum – 17:20: Julia Gebke (Vienna): Cultural Bias²? Challenge accepted! How to Use Creative Writing in History to Tackle Biases – 17:45: Kees van Berkel (Technical University, Vienna): AI Ethics Audits: How to Empower AI Developers to Engage in Ethical Self-Assessment? – 18:30: Buffet
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Tuesday, Session 3: Cultural & Algorithmic Biases
9:15: ONB Labs Team: ONB’s Collection Criteria & ONB Labs’ Publication Practices – 9:40: Kerstin Herlt (Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main): When Cultural Heritage Data Carries Bias: DE-BIAS Between Critique and Practice – 10:05: Nanne van Noord (University of Amsterdam): Multimodal Biases and Subjectivity in Visual Culture – 10:30: Coffee Break