English description: De-biasing cultural heritage collections on colonial past
The DE-BIAS project is dedicated to detecting and contextualising the use of harmful language in cultural heritage collections aggregated in Europeana.eu, while supporting cultural heritage professionals to address bias in their own collections.
This webinar, targeted to the cultural heritage sector of the Lage Landse, will be held in Dutch. Its objectives are to raise awareness of potential biases in cultural heritage collections connected with the colonial past, to present the outcomes from working on mitigation strategies with communities affected by the bias, and to discuss relevant use cases. The organisers will present their work in DE-BIAS, but participants are invited to bring their own use cases and experiences as well. Together, the group will discuss how harmful language in metadata could be analysed, assessed and addressed, as well as how to prevent bias when creating new descriptions. Participants will also gain a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges of community work.