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KMi at Dagstuhl: Open Scholarly Information Systems
Thursday 25 Sep 2025Photo: www.dagstuhl.de/storage/media/0006/6728/conversions/25381.04.l.jpg Last week, Prof. Petr Knoth and Dr Angelo Salatino attended an invited prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar addressing the status quo, opportunities, and challenges of Open Scholarly Information Systems. Over the last 30 years, a wide range of open scholarly information systems have been developed to serve the scientific community. The seminar has been attended...
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Shifting Power Hosts First “Thought Collective” on Queer AI in Margate
Wednesday 24 Sep 2025
This summer, the Shifting Power project launched its first “Thought Collective” in Margate, Kent—an experimental workshop exploring the intersection of queer theory and practice, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Led by Dr. Tracie Farrell and collaborating artist Liz Rosenfeld, the event brought together twelve queer artists and AI researchers to imagine how AI could support the creation...
KMi claims Best Paper at ACM Hypertext 2025
Tuesday 23 Sep 2025
KMi is delighted to announce that the paper “Literary Hypertext, AI and Google’s New Web: an Aesthetic Discussion”, by Alessio Antonini, Lucia Lupi, Mariusz Pisarski and Sam Brooker, received the Best Paper Award at this year’s ACM Hypertext conference in Chicago. The study asks what happens to the web when AI becomes both author and...
KMi at the inaugural Centre for Protecting Women Online conference: Responsible AI for safer digital spaces
Tuesday 16 Sep 2025
Last week, on the 10th and 11th of September, The Open University hosted the first annual conference of the Centre for Protecting Women Online. The event brought together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from across academia, technology, law enforcement, government, civil society, and beyond to explore and address the pressing challenges to women’s safety in digital spaces. KMi was proud to be part of...
KMi’s report from SEMANTiCS 2025
Monday 8 Sep 2025
The 21st edition of the International Conference on Semantic Systems, commonly known as SEMANTiCS, took place in Vienna last week. This yearly event brings together academics and industry professionals to transfer knowledge and advance innovation. Around 300 participants from across Europe and beyond attended SEMANTiCS 2025. Major themes discussed included various combinations of symbolic and...
KMi has won a 2025 OU Recognition of Excellence in Teaching (RET) Award for its work on the Student Facing Dashboard (SFD), demonstrating the valuable support that technology can provide for teaching and learning. Over the past two years, the OU Analyse team at KMi, alongside colleagues in FBL and IET, has developed a student-facing...
KMi experts present insights on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence to UN committeeKMi’s Prof. Miriam Fernandez and Dr. Angel Pavón Pérez, recently visited the United Nations in Geneva to present key insights on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). They were joined by Professor Olga Jurasz. Their briefing highlighted the significant economic and democratic damages inflicted by TFGBV,...
KMi with a impactful presence at Open Repositories 2025
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