infoclio.ch 2025 annual event
Fri, Nov 21
|Bern
infoclio.ch Conference 2025: Open Science in History - From Enlightenment to Artificial Intelligence
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:50 PM
Bern, PROGR, Waisenhauspl. 30, 3011 Bern, Switzerland
About the event
Open Science challenges researchers with increasingly complex decisions regarding the sharing of their research results, methods, tools, and data. The infoclio.ch Conference 2025 explores the intellectual and technical precursors of Open Science and discusses the practical challenges of its implementation in the age of generative artificial intelligence models.
Taking a longue durée perspective, the first session looks back at the scientific revolution and the upheavals of the 18th century. Two historians analyze the development of scientific communication and the role of science in society, from the first scholarly journals of the 17th century to Kant and Humboldt.
The second session focuses on the impact of computers and digital networks on the opening up of the sciences to the public since the 1960s, homing in on the emergence of new actors in the scientific community. The contributions address the production and dissemination of digital data in the field of history in…