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Featured Ethics Guidelines

Concepts such as fair representation, cultural relativism, and appropriation. conformity bias and ethical fading.
Countless ethical challenges are reflected in media, arts, and culture: from biased framing of a news report in journalism or
issues of free speech for performing artists to copyright infringement or the perpetuation of negative stereotypes.

The listing represents just a fragment of the voluminous guidelines increasingly developed as situations and awareness arise..

ICOM Code of Ethics

The cornerstone of ICOM is the ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums. It sets minimum standards of professional practice and performance for museums and their staff. In joining the organisation, ICOM members undertake to abide by this Code. The ICOM Code of Professional Ethics was adopted unanimously by the 15th General Assembly of ICOM in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on 4 November, 1986. It was amended by the 20th General Assembly in Barcelona (Spain) on 6 July 2001, retitled ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums, and revised by the 21st General Assembly in Seoul (Republic of Korea) on 8 October, 2004.

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Ethics and Policy in Conservation

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OPEN GLAM

The OpenGLAM initiative is currently working on a modern set of principles and values on Open Access for Cultural Heritage. We expect to draft a Declaration that outlines the rationales behind open access policy adoptions, acknowledges different cultural backgrounds, and addresses ethical and privacy considerations to help promote the adoption of open policies by a broader set of organizations around the world.

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WIPO: Compilation of Information on National and Regional Sui Generis regimes for the Intellectual Property Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the forum in which negotiations take place to develop a sui generis international legal instrument for the protection of traditional cultural expressions. Some countries have sui generis (tailor-made) systems of protection in place designed specifically to protect traditional cultural expressions from misappropriation and misuse.

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IBM: AI Fairness 360 (AIF360)

IBM’s AI Fairness 360 (AIF360) toolkit debuted in 2018 as a means for companies to monitor bias in data and machine learning models. There has also been a push towards “counterfactual fairness” in machine learning models, which defines fairness as when an individual is treated equivalently in the real world as when the individual would be treated in the counterfactual (or opposite) world, in which the person belongs to another demographic.

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Microsoft: AI Principles

In 2016, Microsoft led the industry in creating a set of human-centered principles to guide the ethical creation and use of AI. These principles evolved into the six outlined in The Future Computed, released in 2018. These guide our end-to-end approach to AI, from its development to its deployment. Today, Microsoft is putting its principles into practice by embracing diverse perspectives, fostering continuous learning, and proactively responding as AI technology evolves.

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OECD Principles

The OECD Artificial Intelligence Principles are the first international standards agreed by governments for the responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI.

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Partnerships in A.I. Ethics Research

For an aggregated list and calendar of CH+DH Conferences, we recommend the following site:
Heritage Conferences 2020/2021/2022


Please note that schedules and locations are subject to change.

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