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Lohmann, Polly: Digitising from Scratch: An Example from the Practise of a University Collection, in Wergin, Carsten and Affeldt, Stefanie (Eds.): Digitising Heritage: Transoceanic Connections between Australia and Europe, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024 (Cultural Heritage: Materiality—Text—Edition (KEMTE), Volume 4), p. 103–121. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1305.c18422

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Polly Lohmann

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