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Digitising from Scratch
An Example from the Practise of a University Collection
Abstract University collections face different challenges than public museums: established as “study collections”, they combine academic teaching, research and public outreach. In all these matters, they are provided with often very poor, or none, financial and human resources. Given these constraints, digitising such collections represents an enormous effort for individual responsibles. This essay pictures the current situation in the Heidelberg collection of Classical antiquities an plastercasts as an example from the practise. It aims at problematising and questioning what “digitising” may mean and at showing the issues implicated with regard to specific kinds of objects and to selection and access of information.
Keywords Antiquities, Archaeology, Archives, Collections, Digitisation
