How is the digital transformation – from big data to AI – reshaping collection, provenance and art market research today and in the future? What are the key characteristics, methods, challenges and potentials of such digital research approaches? What data skills are required to engage in such research? Furthermore, what structural framework conditions need to be established or strengthened to support transdiciplinary research that combines quantifying and qualifying questions?
The conference aims to bring together researchers, IT experts and practitioners from GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) institutions, universities and the art and antiques trade to discuss the challenges, opportunities and solutions associated with the ‘digital turn’. We welcome contributions from all disciplines engaged in collection, provenance and art market research (archaeology, ethnology, history, cultural and social anthropology, art history, natural history, palaeontology, zoology, botany, medicine, law, and related fields). We particularly encourage submissions on the following topics:
Methods and Tools
• Collection, provenance and market data as components of research data management and collection development (data modelling, ontologies, thesauri, vocabularies, standardised data, etc.)
• Analysis and visualisation of structured data (statistical evaluations, 3D object visualisations, network analyses, geomappings, etc.)
• Artificial intelligence: text recognition, image recognition, deep learning (DL) and natural language processing (NLP) in the field of collection, provenance and art market research
Law, Ethics and Ecology
• Data protection challenges of linked open data in dealing with copyright, personal rights and property rights as well as possible solutions
• FAIR and CARE principles in digital collection, provenance and art market research
• The problem of reproducing discriminatory or biased content from historical sources during the (structured) transfer to digital databases
• Ecological implications of digital applications and infrastructures: strategies for sustainable, climate-friendly implementations
Contributions can be submitted as:
• Presentation (20 minutes, focussing on a transdisciplinary research question)
• Short or impulse presentation (10 minutes, focussing on use cases, workshop reports, best practices or technical solutions) or
• Poster (DIN A0 portrait format, 118,9 x 84,1 cm, focussing on use cases, workshop reports, best practices or technical solutions)
Conference languages are German and English. No conference fee will be charged.
Please submit your proposal for a contribution as an exposé (max. 300 words) accompanied by a short written biography (max. 200 words) and an indication of your preferred format (long presentation, short presentation or poster) in a joint file via e-mail with the subject ‘CFP Digital Turn’ by 30 May 2025 to: gabriele.zoellner@hu-berlin.de.
Venue: Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Nord, Studiensaal in the Gerlach Building (House 3), Philippstr. 13, 10117 Berlin
Organiser: SODa – Collections, Objects, Data Literacy at the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in cooperation with the Department of Digital Provenance and the Centre for Art Market Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin
Concept: Gabriele Zöllner (HU Berlin/SODa – Collections, Objects, Data Literacy), Meike Hopp (TU Berlin/Digital Provenance) and Dorothee Wimmer (TU Berlin/Centre for Art Market Studies)
If you have any questions about the CfP, the topic or the conference, please send an e-mail to: gabriele.zoellner@hu-berlin.de.
For additional information: https://sammlungen.io/termine/digital-turn-sammlungen-provenienzen-maerkte
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