17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library

The ETH Library’s 17:15 Colloquium offers a platform for further education, discussion and networking. Speakers from Switzerland and abroad present topics from their fields in information sciences, library practice, archiving and museums as well as related specialist areas. The formula is a 30-minute presentation + a 30-minute discussion = inspiration for our daily working lives.
It takes place three times a semester at 17:15 on the last Thursday of the month and is geared towards colleagues from the library, archiving, collections and museum sector, as well as interested members of the public.
Previous 17:15 Colloquia

Plan for tomorrow today: a model for data stewardship
Lars Schöbitz, professional data science educator, lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 17.15

The (copyright) legal framework for the use of public content for AI training
David Rosenthal, partner at VISCHER, lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel
Thursday, 31. October 2024, 17.15

Digital resources between infrastructures and standards
Prof. Dr Antoinette Maget Dominicé (University of Geneva), Director of the Centre universitaire du droit de l'art and co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in International Cultural Property Law
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 17.15

Digital transformation in museums – opportunities and challenges
Denise Tonella, Director of the Swiss National Museum
Thursday, 29 February 2024

Large-scale monitoring of nature with deep learning
Prof. Dr Jan Dirk Wegner, Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning, University of Zurich
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 17.15

Collections as Data infrastructures: Perspectives from the United Kingdom
Dr Marco Humbel, research fellow, Sloane Lab, University College London (UK)
Thursday, 30 November 2023, 17.15 Uhr

Understanding Research Quality as Basis of Research Assessment
Dr Michael Ochsner, Senior researcher, FORS, Lausanne, Switzerland
Thursday, 26 October 2023

Tipp-Ex, spell checkers, artificial intelligence: the future of scientific writing
Professor Noah Bubenhofer, Professor of German Linguistics
Thursday, 20 April 2023

«Do you speak Digital?» Shaping digital transformation
Dr Susanne Schumacher, Zurich University of the Arts, Co-Chair Digital Council
Thursday, 30 March 2023

Educational cyborgs and the use of robots in higher educational institutions
Ricarda T. D. Reimer and Silvan Flückiger, University of Teacher Education FHNW, Office of Digital Teaching and Learning
Thursday, 23 February 2023

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Curation – Opportunities and Risks for Libraries
Clemens Neudecker, project manager Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage
Thursday, 24 November 2022

Productive failure
Professor Manu Kapur, Chair of Learning Sciences and Higher Education, ETH Zurich
Thursday, 27 October 2022

Art & Artificial Intelligence
Adrian Notz, curator at the ETH AI Center
Thursday, 29 September 2022

Why the educational institutions are stuck in a loop when it comes to digitality – and how they can break the cycle
Dr Christoph Schmitt, Bildungsdesign
Thursday, 28 April 2022

Climate communication using virtual reality
Professor Niklaus Heeb, director of Knowledge Visualization, and Jonas Christen, research assistant at Zurich University of the Arts
Thursday, 31 March 2022

Public engagement with science: the Citizen Science Knowledge Center at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Thomas Kaarsted, Director of the Citizen Science Knowledge Center and Deputy Library Director at SDU
Thursday, 24 February 2022

- Archives and libraries: The long goodbye? History in immersive media
Junior Professor Dr Christian Bunnenberg, Ruhr-University Bochum
Thursday, 25 November 2021

- ETH Library Lab
Maximiliane Okonnek, Managing Director
Thursday, 28 October 2021

Organisational Energy
Charlotte Reiff, Consultant at energy factory St. Gallen AG
Thursday, 30 September 2021

Rules to ensure good scientific practice reloaded and the role of libraries...
Nicole Walger, Director UB Duisburg-Essen
Thursday, 29 April 2021

Deep learning in document analysis
Prof. Thilo Stadelmann, ZHAW School of Engineering
Thursday, 25 March 2021

Renku – the ETH platform for digital reproducibility in science
Dr Andreas Bleuler, Senior Computer Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center
Thursday, 25 February 2021

Dr Margarete Pratschke, Humboldt University
Thursday, 3 December 2020

From the “readability of the world” (Blumenberg) to “machine readability of linked data”
Prof. Sybille Krämer, Freie Universität Berlin
Thursday, 26 November 2020

Online publications: What kinds of legal hurdles do archives face?
Martin Steiger, lawyer and expert on law in the digital space
Thursday, 24 September 2020

Deep learning in document analysis
Prof. Thilo Stadelmann, ZHAW School of Engineering
Thursday, 30.04.2020, cancelled

Educational cyborgs and the use of robots in libraries
Ricarda T.D. Reimer, FHNW und Silvan Flückiger, FHNW
Thursday, 26.03.2020, cancelled

Nicole Walger, UB Duisburg-Essen
Thursday, 31.10.2019

Blockchain for digital libraries and preservation. An AI point of view. My personal point of view
Prof. Jose de la Rosa Esteva, UdG
Thursday, 26.09.2019

Archives in motion: digital collections and experimental museology
Prof. Sarah Kenderdine, EPFL
Thursday, 23.05.2019

Dr Günter Mühlberger, University of Innsbruck
Thursday, 24.05.2019

Openness, exchange, FAIR data - oh brave new world that has such a vision!
Dr Marjan Grootveld, DANS
Thursday, 25.10.2018

Gamification and game design: Theory and practice beyond promises of salvation
Dr Mela Kocher und Lic. phil. I René Bauer, ZHdK
Thursday, 27.09.2018

Could, should, must ? Contradictory environment-behaviour-settings in libraries
Dr Eva-Christina Edinger
Thursday, 26.04.2018

Visualising and reading texts: Linguistic reading in the digital age and the role of libraries
Dr Noah Bubenhofer
Thursday, 22.03.2018