Selected collections from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities encounter approaches from the Digital Humanities. Together, the project explores how collection holdings can be digitally cataloged, linked to one another, and made accessible for new forms of scholarly use.
The German Optical Museum offers insights into its collections, presenting selected objects and the stories behind them. The digital focus is on provenance, knowledge graphs, and the digital linking of information. It shows how different types of information related to a collection object can be connected, thereby revealing new relationships and perspectives.
At the heart of the talk is the question of how long-term measurement data can be understood as scientific collections, digitally made accessible, and made available for new research questions. It also explores how digital methods of data analysis can open up new perspectives on complex scientific datasets.
Using the Haussknecht Herbarium as an example, this presentation focuses on digital methods for cataloging and analyzing collection items. The Senckenberg Institute is responsible for the digital component and demonstrates how modern data analysis methods can reveal new information and open up new avenues for researching and utilizing collections.