Digital Network for Collections
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Projects of the Digital Network for Collections

We support the FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin, and Charité in the digital cataloguing and presentation of their collections. This page provides an overview of our collaborations and the projects that have been implemented. 

We are always open to new collaborations. Feel free to contact us if you would like to suggest a joint project or find out more about our work.

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The projects are managed by the Digital Network for Collections team.

Ongoing Projects

Heiner Müller Archiv / Transitraum

Support for the digitization of inserts and other details, such as handwritten notes, from around 50 books from Heiner Müller’s library
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3D Digitization of Collection Objects from Berlin University Alliance Institutions

Collaboration with the TU Berlin’s ZE3D for the three-dimensional scanning and online presentation of university collection objects
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Data Management Lab

Tools for working with collection data
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Exhibition on Researching the Alban Collection

Support for a seminar at the Institute of Egyptology at the FU Berlin
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Presentation of an Archive of Art and Culture by Berlin’s Migrant Communities

Support for a seminar at the Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HU Berlin)
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Documentation of Historical Medical Equipment

Photographic documentation and inventory of the equipment used for practical training in physiology
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Digitization of Historical Video Recordings from the Historical Archive on Tourism

A selection of Super 8 and Hi8 films
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Data Management for the Cast Collection of Ancient Sculptures

Tool for collaboration with specialist iDAI.objects portal
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Pilot Study to Record Provenance Information

Collaboration with Sultan Art Collection Research (SACRe)
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Audiovisual Strike Newspaper from the 1980s and 1990s

Digitization of videos about mass student protests at the FU Berlin
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A New Presentation of the Media Archaeological Fundus

Organizing data about historical media technology devices
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Presenting Newly Catalogued Wall Maps

An online tool for a feasibility study at the FU Berlin’s Geosciences Library
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Planned Projects

Data Management for the Collection Database of the Berlin Museum of Medical History

Development of a tool for the LIDO mapping of collection data
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“Data Hotel” for Winckelmann Institute’s Collection of Original Artworks

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Completed Projects

Support for the Project Seminar “Trimmed to Size!” (“zurechtgestutzt!”)

Collaboration with the Department of German Literature at HU Berlin
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Pilot Digitization of a Mineralogical Collection

Specimens, inventory books, and a keyword index of the TU Berlin’s Mineralogical Collections
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Digitization of University Collections

The HU Berlin is digitizing in cooperation with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
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Online Exhibition: “A Sleeping Ariadne in Berlin” (“Eine schlafende Ariadne in Berlin”)

Supporting the FU Berlin’s Cast Collection of Ancient Sculptures in a project seminar
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Collaboration with the Research Network “Colonial Collections in Berlin Universities”

Berlin University Alliance—Center for Global Engagement
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The Estate of the Architecture Critic Ugo Ojetti

Supporting a project seminar at the FU Berlin
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Heilpädagogisches Archiv

Support for the research-oriented digitization
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Digitizing Theater History Objects

Implementing Omeka S for Collection Digitization
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Photo Project for the Historical Cabinet at the Institute of Psychology

Documentation of an instrument collection at HU Berlin
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Wikidata-based Indexing of Teaching Images

Data Inspector for HU Berlin’s Department of Art and Visual History (IKB)
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Anthropological Teaching Image Collection by Hans Grimm (1910–1995)

Support in the digitization and contextualization of one of Charité’s ethically sensitive collections
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AI-Based Transcription of Historical Dissection Protocols

A preliminary study for the digital edition of Rudolf Virchow’s dissection protocols held in the archive of the Berlin Museum of Medical History (Charité)
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Digitization of the Specimen Index of the Berlin Museum of Medical History

Scanning and digital preparation of the central analogue finding aid for the specimen collection
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Supporting the Outreach Efforts of two FU Berlin Collections

Professional photographs for the Biology Education and Near Eastern Archaeology collections
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Photographic Documentation of Ship Propellers

Documenting a model propeller collection with photographs and elementary metadata
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Data Recovery at the Archive of Twentieth-Century Hospital Construction (Archiv für Krankenhausbau des XX. Jahrhunderts)

Backup of data on outdated hardware
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Developing Skills in Photographic Documentation

A workshop with the TU Berlin’s Mineralogical Collections
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Photographic Documentation of Soil Profiles

Documenting a collection with photographs and elementary metadata
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Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology
and Space (BMFTR) as well as the State of Berlin as part
of the federal and state government Excellence Strategy

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