Zitationsvorschlag

Belot, Margot et al.: Digitization of Object Rich Natural History Collections with DORA – a Multi-Organizational Approach to Success, in Bienert, Andreas, Emenlauer-Blömers, Eva und Lengyel, Dominik (Hrsg.): EVA Berlin 2023. Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur und Historie: 27. Berliner Veranstaltung der internationalen EVA-Serie, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2026 (EVA Berlin, Band 27), S. 116. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1567.c25502

Lizenz (Kapitel)

Creative Commons License

Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International.

Identifier (Buch)

https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1567
ISBN 978-3-98501-331-9 (PDF)

Veröffentlicht

16.01.2026

Downloads

Kapitel herunterladen (PDF/256KB)
Statistik

Autor/innen

Margot Belot, Frederik Berger, Andreas Herzog, Nora Lentge-Maaß, Michael Neumann, Susann Rebbe, Thomas von Rintelen, Michael Schiller, Silvio Sperling, Alexander Tröger, Erik Trostmann, Christine Zorn

Digitization of Object Rich Natural History Collections with DORA – a Multi-Organizational Approach to Success

Digital transformation of natural history collections addresses mainly the digital cataloguing of metadata to relate the collection objects in central databases. However, most collections struggle to fulfil this task in a decent amount of time due to a lack of standardized workflows and a vast amount of data. Therefore, new ways of fast and effective inventory, as well as semi-automated pictorial digitization needs to be brought up in natural history collections. To achieve this, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin started an action plan in 2020 regarding the full inventory of the approx. 30 million collection objects, creating a complete digital catalogue of its holdings within 10 years. The biggest challenges here are the object rich collections like Mollusca, fossil Invertebrates or insect collections.