The Access Hub provides an overview of relevant workshops and conferences, calls for proposals, as well as resources on the topic of “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change” – without claiming to be complete. We welcome suggestions for additions (email: nora.kluck@uni-muenster.de).

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• Conferences & Workshops

  Call for Papers & Participation

  • Conference “Archival Intelligence: AI x Archives x Museums” am Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe (ZKM): Archives and museums are placing great hopes in Artificial Intelligence, especially for time-consuming, labor-intensive tasks. The conference asks where we currently stand with regard to these promises. It seeks to show where and how AI can be used in practice and to open a discussion on the new possibilities and consequences arising from the availability of these technologies — implications that we may not yet have anticipated. The focus lies on concrete applications of AI. Event date: 10 December 2025
  • Online Conference “The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2026” of the Belvedere, Vienna: Now in its eighth edition, the international online conference explores the complex interrelations between truth, fake and falsified information, and knowledge authority in the context of digital transformation processes. At the heart of the conference is the question of how museums can assume digital responsibility and actively contribute to fostering an open and reflective information culture. Event date: 19–23 January 2026

  • Conference “Digital Curating: Ethics of Access and Sustainability” of the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”
    The international conference will address changes in curatorial practices in the wake of digital transformation and the resulting ethical, ecological and social challenges. Experts from museums, universities and cultural institutions will discuss how digital technologies are expanding access to cultural heritage, challenging existing hierarchies and enabling new forms of participatory knowledge production. Organisation: Prof. Dr. Renate Buschmann, Josina Dehn, M.A., Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne. Event date: 4–6 March 2026

  • Conference: “Kulturelle Teilhabe im digitalen Wandel – Ethik, Ästhetik und Praxis des Zugangs zu kulturellen Gütern für Menschen mit Behinderungen” of the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change” (“Cultural participation in the digital transformation – ethics, aesthetics and practice of access to cultural goods for people with disabilities”)
    How does digitalisation change cultural participation of people with disabilities? Does it open up new ways of access, forms of expression, and spaces for self-determination – or does it create new barriers, standardisations, and exclusions? The conference addresses these questions from ethical, aesthetic and practical perspectives. It brings together scientific, artistic and activist forms of knowledge and creates space for dialogue, reflection and joint practice. Organisation: Dr. Hauke Behrendt, Prof. Dr. Annette Gilbert, Dr. Thomas Kater, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Saerberg. Event date: 18–20 March 2026

  • 8th Retrodigitisation Workshop 2026 of the NFDI4Cukture: Under the heading “Digitization for eternity? – Data quality in practice”, practitioners involved in retro-digitization in libraries, archives, and museums will be brought together. A lot can go wrong when creating retrodigitised material and the associated metadata. Once master data is incorrect, correcting it can be either expensive or even impossible. This year’s retrodigitisation workshop will focus on the creation, validation and storage of retrodigitised material in the best possible formats, ways to achieve the optimal format for digitised material, and ways of dealing with errors and pitfalls, balancing between requirements and feasibility. Event date: 19–20 March 2026
  • Conference “Zugang gestalten! Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe 2026”: 16th edition of the conference series, this time at the Berlin State Library, focusing on “Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerung”. Event date: 30 September to 2 October 2026
  • Events of the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”
  • Conference series “Zugang gestalten! Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe” with an annual conference.

  Recordings

  • “The Art Museum in the Digital Age” – international online conference series of the Belvedere, Vienna

  • COMMUNIA Salon

  • Europeana 2025 (on YouTube)

  • Conference series “Zugang gestalten! Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe”

  • Online Symposium celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the “One Million Book Project” at Carnegie Mellon University (Internet Archive, August 2021)

• Jobs & Scholarships

  • ifk Junior Fellowships from the International Research Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna: Doctoral candidates with Austrian citizenship or doctoral candidates who are supervised at Austrian universities are eligible to apply. The dissertation project must be an interdisciplinary research project in the field of the humanities, social sciences, and/or the arts that uses cultural studies questions and methods. Application deadline: 25 January 2026.

• Resources

  • Europeana: Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage. Europeana gives access to millions of items from providing institutions across Europe, e. g. to artworks, books, music, and videos.

  • The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek – Kultur und Wissen online (German Digital Library) is a database of cultural objects where books or full texts can be read or downloaded in their entirety, provided they are no longer subject to legal restrictions. In addition to books and texts, there are also archival materials, images and photographs, sculptures, pieces of music and other audio documents, films and sheet music, paintings, manuscripts and much more.

  • museum-digital is a joint initiative by museums and museum associations. It helps museums to present their collections online. All published objects can be searched collectively on museum-digital:global.

  • BnF Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. It offers free and open access to several million digitized documents from all periods and all media.

  • Art UK offers free digital access to the UK’s public art collections. It brings together over 700,000 artworks from 3,500 institutions – museums, libraries, town halls, hospitals – as well as public artworks in urban spaces such as sculptures and murals.

  • Wikimedia Commons is a collection of more than 130 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

  • Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

  • International Documents on the Protection of Cultural Goods, aggregated by Prof. Dr. Ruben Apressyan, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”. 

  • Center for Digital Humanities der Universität Münster: The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is an interest group of digital researchers from different faculties and handles the scientific shaping of the thematic field of Digital Humanities at Münster.

  • Research project “The Problems of Access to Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age” at Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic) (Principal Investigator: doc. Mgr. Pavel Zahrádka, PhD, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”)