Report on the international conference “Mutual Learning Workshop for Improving Cultural Heritage Bibliographical Data” (October 12–14, 2022, Prague)

The conference was preceded by an official meeting of the BD WG's members (October 12th, 10:00-12:00 CEST), who discussed the group's main goal for 2023 and 2024 and focused on outlining the general idea described as "Understanding society and culture through bibliographical data.Scaling up bibliographical data research in the social sciences and humanities".The goal will be specified in 2023 (possibly during an international conference), at which time opportunities and challenges for bibliographical data science, open bibliodata, best practices for documentation of bibliodata resources, and bibliodata LOD-ification using open-access software will be discussed.A project team for booksprint about the bibliodata related workflows in the structure of SSHOC Workflows is also scheduled to be established in 2023.The results will be presented at the DARIAH Annual Conference in 2024.The last item on the agenda is the publishing of a peer-reviewed book containing the BD WG's report An Analysis of the Current Bibliographical Data Landscape in the Humanities: A Case for the Joint Bibliodata Agendas of Public Stakeholders (Bibliophical Data Working Group, 2022).The conference was divided into several panels.The first panel -Introductory speeches (13:30-14:35 CEST) -presented an outline of what the ICL CAS, DARIAH-EU and the BD WG have in common.The Welcoming word was given by Michal Kosák (Statutory Deputy Director of the ICL CAS, who spoke on behalf of absent Petr Šámal, Director of the ICL CAS), who said that when he started his job in the ICL CAS over 20 years ago, it was unimaginable to him that an international bibliographic conference