Gatekeeping Algorithms with Human Ethical Bias: The ethics of algorithms
  in archives, libraries and society
  In the age of algorithms, I focus on the question of how to ensure algorithms
that will take over many of our familiar archival and library tasks, will
behave according to human ethical norms that have evolved over many years. I
start by characterizing physical archives in the context of related
institutions such as libraries and museums. In this setting I analyze how
ethical principles, in particular about access to information, have been
formalized and communicated in the form of ethical codes, or: codes of
conducts. After that I describe two main developments: digitalization, in which
physical aspects of the world are turned into digital data, and
algorithmization, in which intelligent computer programs turn this data into
predictions and decisions. Both affect interactions that were once physical but
now digital. In this new setting I survey and analyze the ethical aspects of
algorithms and how they shape a vision on the future of archivists and
librarians, in the form of algorithmic documentalists, or: codementalists.
Finally I outline a general research strategy, called IntERMEeDIUM, to obtain
algorithms that obey are human ethical values encoded in code of ethics.
