GLAM and Digital Museum Collections - From Linked Open Data to AI Challenges

Explore a thought-provoking conference talk from the 38th Chaos Communication Congress that delves into the complex world of museum digitization and its challenges. Learn about how museum collections transition to digital platforms, why online collections still resemble 19th-century catalogs, and examine the strategies and funding programs driving these initiatives. Discover the quasi-monopolies controlling museum digitization and understand why museums place such high hopes on digitalization for access, participation, and democracy. Drawing from four years of research on museum digitization, particularly focusing on the Berlin State Museums' annual reports since 1990 and German federal government's digital strategies, gain insights into major developments and conflicts in museum digitization projects like "museum4punkt0" and "Datenraum Kultur." Understand the intersection between museum criticism and data politics, while exploring the role of emerging technologies like AI, Virtual Reality, and Linked Open Data in shaping the future of cultural institutions.