The Library of Babel as a Digital Library of Human Mistakes

Abstract

Mistakes appear in every area of life. Analyzing these mistakes can yield valuable insights to prevent possible mistakes in the future. However, until now there is a lack of infrastructure for collecting these mistakes. In this paper, we present suggestions towards a conceptual model for storing human mistakes as digital objects. We argue, that these digital libraries need special infrastructure, to make the information useful not only for humans but for machines as well. To ensure the usability of such a library of mistakes, the mistakes themselves should follow the FAIR principles.

Authors 3

1. Lars Quakulinski Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University,Aachen,Germany

   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

2. Adamantios Koumpis

   University of Cologne

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Biomedical Informatics University of Cologne,Cologne,Germany

   Institute for Biomedical Informatics University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

3. Oya Beyan

   University of Cologne · Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Cologne,Cologne,Germany

   Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), St. Augustin, Germany

   Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany