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Image and Research Conference

19 de novembre

De-bias: Addressing bias in metadata descriptions in image collections in the age of GenAI

In the EU funded project "De-bias: Detecting and cur(at)ing harmful language in cultural heritage collections" a multinational European consortium developed a community-based approach, a typology, vocabulary and LLM-based tool to detect, contextualize and address description bias in digitized image collections. The tool has been integrated in Europeana, and is also available as a stand-alone tool. The consortium will continue to expand and develop the tool, for which a growing interest has emerged.
In this talk, we will reflect on the nature of the problem, the role of metadata enrichment and review, the role of stakeholder communities, the importance of vocabularies and the use of GenAI in metadata enrichment and optimisation.

Fred Truyen

Fred Truyen °16-02-1961 is full professor at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven. He publishes on Digitisation of Heritage, Photography and E-Learning in the Humanities. He is in charge of CS Digital and the coordinator of the interdisciplinary innovation program DigitGLAM (Industrial Fund KU Leuven). He was involved in many projects on digitisation of Cultural Heritage, such as EuropeanaPhotography (coordinator), Europeana Space (pilot leader) the Europeana DSI (aggregator for photography) and in CEF Generic projects for Europeana such as Migration in the Arts and Sciences, Kaleidoscope: the 1950s in Europe, Europeana Common Culture, Europeana: Century of Change and WEAVE. He participated in the H2020 projects Detect: Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives and Indices.
Highly impactful work was done in the Digital Europe Program with AI4Culture – AI tools for museums, archives and libraries and Debias – an AI tool for detecting harmful content in collections. Currently he is working on the Horizon project lmpulse on heritage data for the Metaverse. His main research focus is metadata development and the digital transformation roadmap for Cultural Heritage Institutions. Prof. Truyen teaches courses on Online Publishing and Digital Cultural Heritage in the MA Cultural Studies, European Studies and the Advanced Master Digital Humanities at KU Leuven, as well as “Data for Heritage Institutions” in the Postgraduate program for Heritage at KU Leuven. Prof. Truyen is a member of the Europeana Network Association and is active in the field of European policies on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage. He is also a member of CLARIAH-VL Flanders. He is founding member and former president (2015-2022) of Photoconsortium, an association for the safeguard and promotion of photographic heritage.

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