The archive provides Chinese and English research texts. Translations may be AI-assisted and may not yet have received independent human review. Consult the original-language sources alongside them.
Four literary researchers on 11 March 2022 support computational assistance while questioning removal of human reviewers and opacity, and call for independent audit. Maria Vlaar’s letter dated 6 April 2022 asks reconsideration of automation and continued human acquisition-information work.
Over700 service providers is a reported scale,not700 employees legally found dismissed;quality/diversity/algorithm judgements are attributed.Software,contracts,implementation date,completed audit and reversal unverified. Supplier accounts do not establish independent quality,actual review scope or completed audit;manual checks do not establish retention of former reviewers or negate the labour dispute. Supplier account appended without replacing earlier positions;exact decision/implementation dates unresolved,no new event.
Case chronology
Are NBD Biblion’s bots a positive development?
Four literary researchers on11March2022 support computational assistance while questioning removal of human reviewers and opacity,and call for independent audit.
Letter concerning library acquisition information
Maria Vlaar’s letter dated6April2022 asks reconsideration of automation and continued human acquisition-information work.
Research question
Editorial: Dutch2022 debate connects automation to review labour,book visibility and collection diversity,with conditional research support alongside association objection.
Related documents
DOC-1438Authors’ association response to automated book-acquisition informationDOC-1439Letter concerning library acquisition informationDOC-1440Are NBD Biblion’s bots a positive development?DOC-1441New-style book-acquisition information2022DOC-1442Annual report2022: automated metadataSources
Auteursbond · NL · 2022-04-07
Cite this record
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. “NBD Biblion: acquisition-text automation,review labour and diversity.” case-0313. Include this page’s URL and your access date when citing.