A set of botanical specimens collected in the 18th and 19th centuries by members of the Moravian Church (German: Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine) and stored at the Herbarium Dresdense will serve as case studies to exchange experiences, discuss opportunities, and identify challenges researchers face when using digitized university collections in interdisciplinary approaches.
Objects in science collections and their metadata are being made increasingly accessible with the help of digital technologies, so that once purely physical collections are becoming part of a powerful and comprehensive knowledge base.
Digitization not only increases the visibility of objects and accessibility of metadata but moreover allows their use in cross-collection analyses and multidisciplinary approaches. Jointly led by the Chair of Botany (TUD) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Pietism Research at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), an ongoing research project brings together the natural sciences and humanities to demonstrate the potential of digitization and Linked Data for interdisciplinary research by focusing on the scientific heritage of Saxony.
A set of botanical specimens collected in the 18th and 19th centuries by members of the Moravian Church (German: Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine) and stored at the Herbarium Dresdense will serve as case studies to exchange experiences, discuss opportunities, and identify challenges researchers face when using digitized university collections in interdisciplinary approaches.
The workshop, held together with SLUB’s experts for Digital Humanities, will combine short input papers with ample time for discussions based on selected objects and methods.
It aims to offer a platform for students and researchers on any career level to exchange knowledge and experience with respect to: Scientific objects in digital collections Using digital technologies to gain multidisciplinary perspectives on objects Using Linked Data to connect object information through normative data Challenges of virtual presentation of objects and their metadata.
