Program
Theme: Documents – Continuity and Innovation
Day 1: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
19:00-21:00: Informal gathering at "Ständige Vertretung Berlin", Schiffbauerdamm 8, 10117 Berlin (Local brewery near Humboldt University)
Day 2: Thursday, September 18, 2025
The conference will be hosted at Dorotheenstrasse 26, 10117 Berlin, in the heart of the Mitte district of Berlin and on the campus of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
08:00-08:30: Registration and Arrival (coffee and snacks provided)
08:30-09:00: Welcome Address by Vivien Petras and Sascha Donner
09:00-10:00: Keynote Presentations by Maurizio Ferraris on Webfare
10:00-10:15: Coffee Break
10:15-11:45: Session I: Digital Documentation in Interdisciplinary Research I
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What's in a Document? Word and Document Embeddings for the Future |
John Kausch |
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Uncovering Shift from Print to Digital to Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Transformative Documentation Practices and Preservation at the University of the Philippines Diliman University Libraries |
Miriam Charmigrace Q. Salcedo, Maria Maura S. Tinao, Jessie Rose M. Bagunu |
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New Ways to Access Content through Text Mining Techniques |
Ricardo Eito-Brun |
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AI in the Archive: The Implications for Personal and Family Documentation Practices |
Vanessa Reyes, Bhuva Narayan, Annemarie Zijlema, and Mary Anne Kennan |
11:45-12:30: Visit to the library of the Humboldt University
12:30-13:15: Lunch (self-organized; sandwiches provided)
13:15-14:45: Session II: Digital Documentation in Interdisciplinary Research II
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Evidence-based practices in healthcare and generative AI: the case of hospital librarians |
Sara Ahlryd |
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Better Together: Exploring Patient Perspectives, Engagement, and Output Quality in Doctor-supervised Use of AI During Informed Consent Consultation with ChatGPT and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) |
Sascha Donner, Poroshista Knauer, Arne Kienzle, Jesse Dinneen, Jost Burger, Carsten Perka, Stefanie Donner |
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The Applications and Influences of AI Technology in Archival Management in China
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Yongsheng Chen, Huimin Bao, Huanning Su |
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Personal Archiving at the Crossroads of AI, Aging, and Documentation |
Vanessa Reyes |
14:45-15:00: Coffee Break
15:00-16:30: Workshop I: Presentation and Meeting of the DOCAM Research Alliance – focus on artistic documentation (Host: Niels Windfeld Lund, Asy Neto)
16:30-17:15: A document in time: Instrument of persecution, source of evidence, and basis for remembrance? Insights into the work of the Arolsen Archives. Talk by Kim Dresel and Giora Zwilling from the Arolsen Archives, International Center on Nazi Persecution
17:45-19:30: Visit to the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage (https://stabi-kulturwerk.de/exhibitions/?lang=en Short), short city walking tour
19:30-21:00: Shared dinner – Brauhaus GEORGBRAEU, Spreeufer 4, 10178 Berlin (German restaurant and brewery; https://www.georgbraeu.de)
Day 3: Friday, September 19, 2025
08:00-08:30: Registration and Arrival
08:30-10:30: Hybrid – Session III: Lightning Talks
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The Use of Tech and AI in Neopagan Practice |
Shellie A. Smith |
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Can AI-Generated Content be Cultural Heritage? Rethinking Document Theory, Authorship, and Preservation in the Age of Machine Texts |
Ryo Shiozaki |
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Mediating Cultural Messages through Technology: A Case Study of the Paras Nusantara Program in the National Museum of Indonesia |
Ciwuk Musiana Yudhawasthi |
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Documenting Democracy: AI and Impact of Future Technologies on Political Document Productivity |
Lydia Christiani, Katrin Setio Devi, Rusdan Kamil |
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Toward Transparent Bureaucracy: NLP-Based Document Classification and Power Dynamics in the Srikandi System |
Zulfatun Sofiyani, Suprayitno Suprayitno, Faisal Fahmi, Mega Putri Mahadewi, |
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The Politics of Remembering: Reconfiguring The Diorama of Monas as Augmented Living Document |
Suprayitno Suprayitno, Zulfatun Sofiyani, Rahmi Rahmi |
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“This Is Not My Real Face”: Faces as Documentation and the Disappearance of Time. |
Camilla Lyckblad |
10:30-10:45: Coffee Break
10:45-12:15: Session IV: AI and the Document of the Future
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The AI Dream of H. G. Wells’ World Brain |
Lai Ma |
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Trusting documents |
Karl-Heinrich Schmidt |
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The Robot as a Document for Action: Materiality and Corporeality in the Info-Communicational Approach to Robots |
Cécile Payeur, Béa Arruabarrena |
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Documentation in the age of Generative AI: Applying the Model of Documentation Activity (MoDA) |
Sascha Donner |
12:15-13:00: Lunch (self-organized; sandwiches provided)
13:00-13:30: Brita Miko will present her artwork titled "Back When We Still Existed, July 2024"
13:30-15:15: Hybrid – Session V: Document Theory and Practice
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What Makes Us Human |
Jodi Kearns , Jennifer Davis |
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All Documents are Palimpsestuous: AI, Librarians, Proximity, and Meaning |
Laurie Bonnici, Brian O'Connor |
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Representing the Apparatus in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chemical Abstracting Literature |
Evan Kuehn |
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Cerebral documents and algorithmic sensemaking: Searching for expressions in human and artificial cognitive collaborations |
Rebekah L. Cowell |
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Presentation of a historical project on the European documentalist Frits Donker Duyvis |
Nathan R. Johnson |
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The Politics of Remembering: Reconfiguring The Diorama of Monas as Augmented Living Document |
Suprayitno Suprayitno; Zulfatun Sofiyani; Rahmi Rahmi |
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AI as Document Genres
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Wayne de Fremery
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15:15-15:45: Coffee Break
15:45-16:15: Talk by Ron Day: Documentality: Con-text to Content
16:15-17:45: Hybrid – Workshop II: Legacy and Future in Documentation Research (Host: Michael Buckland, Joacim Hansson)
17:45-18:15: Hybrid – Talk by Geoffrey Bowker, Professor and Director of our Values in Design Laboratory, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
18:30-20:30: Short city walking tour and visit to the iconic glass dome of the German Reichstag (seat of the German parliament)
20:30-22:00: Shared dinner – AMRIT, Oranienburger Str. 45, 10117 Berlin (Indian Restaurant; https://amrit.de/en/indisches-restaurant-berlin-mitte/)
Day 4: Saturday, September 20, 2025
08:00-08:30: Registration and Arrival
08:30-10:00: Session VI: Document and Culture
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The Passport in the "Empire of Liberty" |
Melissa Adler |
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Transborder Objects and the Documentary Nature of Art: Rethinking Boundaries in Post-Pandemic Performative Practices” |
Asy Pepe Sanches Neto |
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Understanding Hopecore Content on Instagram |
Tim Gorichanaz, Rachel Typrin |
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Media History of New Public Management: Documentation, Database and Public Administration |
Charlie Järpvall, Johan Jarlbrink |
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Living Documents of Protest: The Lifecycle of Activist Signs |
Jenny Glashoff |
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Hair talks! Hair as flair, hair as object, hair as evidence, hair as document |
Bhuva Narayan |
10:00-10:15: Coffee Break
10:15-12:00: Session VII: Document Theory and Practice
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Standardizing social science metadata for interoperability, discoverability and accessibility |
Judit Gárdos, Róza Vajda, Timea Venczel |
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Looking through the Neo-Documentalist Lens: A Literature Review of the Document Approach to Visual Information in Information Studies |
Erik Svallingson |
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Flypaper: The documentation and documentality of model organisms |
Samuel Dodson, Brianna Buljung |
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University AI at Work: The Impact on Personal Document Creation |
Vanessa Reyes, Alec Mullender |
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Information has structure and how to manipulate it |
Dr. Carol E.B. Choksy |
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A complementary document approach – what are the challenges? |
Roswitha Skare |
12:00-12:30: Closing Remarks
12:30-13:00: Business Meeting: Open to all attendees
During DOCAM, Brita Miko will present her artwork titled "Back When We Still Existed, July 2024", contributing a thought-provoking artistic perspective to the conference program.