DIGITAL INITIATIVES
Monday Morning Coffee
… with Delphine, Frank & Martin. We meet online once a month for an informal chat, a talk, and a smile. And maybe coffee or tea? It’s an open room to talk about anything academic heritage related or something else.
Next:
Monday, September 5th, 10 a.m. Paris (9 a.m. Lisbon/London, 11 a.m. Athens)
Catching up: what happened this summer, especially in Belgium?
There is no registration, just join! More information including a link to the “virtual café” will be sent via the newsletter/mailing list. Ideas, questions or suggestions are very much welcomed. See you soon!
Delphine, Frank and Martin
Contact:
Delphine Isseman, <delphine.issenmann@unistra.fr>
Frank Meijer, <f.t.meijer@academischerfgoed.nl>
Martin Stricker, <martin.stricker@hu-berlin.de>
Previous Monday Morning Coffees
May 23rd, 2022 & June, 27th: Today at the University Museum!
Marek thinks, we should tell each other more about what is going on at our local museums and in our regional networks. We all agree. We develop some ideas. And we kept the discussion going until we had a plan. Coming soon: really interesting news!
March 28, 2022: Mathematical Models and The Challenges of Collection Management
Robert showed us the relaunched Digital Archive of Mathematical Models.
February 21, 2022: Pleasant chat
We chatted in a small group. Very pleasant, very motivating. 😊
January 24, 2022: New Year edition
Our optimistic (as always) outlook into the new year. It will be a year with lots of conferences where we will be able to meet in person again:
- April 26-29, 2022, Warsaw, Poland: Academic heritage for the future of science
- July 5-8, 2022, Belgium: Universeum 2022: University Museums & Collections: Challenges of the Past – Responsibilities for Today
- July 18-22, 2022, Flensburg, Germany: Objects of Understanding: Historical Perspectives on Material Artifacts and Practices in Science Education (Contact Roland for details!)
- August 22-25, 2022, Prague, Czech Republic: UMAC-NATHIST-ICME-ICR 2022: The Power of Museums: Sustainability
- September 19-23, 2022, Athens, Greece: XLI Scientific Instrument Symposium: The Past, Present, and Future of Scientific Instrument Studies
December 13, 2021: The impossible collection
Jean Davoigneau and Loïc Jeanson organized a live observatory visit with the title: “The impossible collection“. They shared the result of their research project on French meridian circles (a meridian circle is a specific category of refracting telescope, used to measure transit of stars across the local meridian). For that, they explored new approaches to mediation and the use of digital tools. We virtually and simultaneously connected with Toulouse, Hendaye, Besançon, Paris and Strasbourg to discover the instruments in situ and share with the participants of the project.
November 15, 2021: Open Talk
No fixed topic. The floor was open for everybody to share ideas, hopes and plans for the coming period. Also: European Academic Heritage Day 2021: Hidden Stories.
September 2, 2021: Live from….! at the UMAC–Universeum Conference 2021
Video here! With Liselot Neervoort (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Rüdiger Hoffmann/Jörg Zaun (Historical Acoustic-Phonetic Collection of Technical University Dresden), Peny Theologi-Gouti (Science and Technology Museum of the University of Patras) and Laurens de Rooy (Museum Vrolik, Amsterdam).
June 28, 2021: Holidays are here, and the end of the pandemic is near
Or is it?
April 19, 2021: LIVE! From the Observatory of Astronomy of Strasbourg!
A rather spontaneous and low-tech experiment of a live session from the Observatory of Astronomy of Strasbourg. We had the opportunity to discover the site, including the recently restaured celestial globe of Coronelli. Pierre-Alain Duc, director of the observatory, was our friendly host, and Sébastien revealed his considerable talents as camera operator.
March 1, 2021: Digital Strategies at the Museum of English Rural Life
We were joined by Kate Arnold Foster, Guy Baxter and Joe Vaughan from the Museum of English Rural Life (University of Reading). We talked with them about how they managed to acquire and maintain more than 150.000 Twitter followers, and how they engage such a fine social media audience with other digital platforms of museum and university collections.
February 1, 2021: Intangible Heritage
- Technical University of Denmark, History of Technology: Videos (in Danish): Measure one meter. The story of how scientists have defined the meter • Thomas Lund Madsen and The Thermal Mannequin (son talking about his father, using pictures in the family collection)
- UNESCO: What is Intangible Cultural Heritage?
- Heritage Crafts Association (UK): The Red List of Endangered Crafts
- KU Leuven: The Central Campus Glass Blowing (in Dutch)
January 11, 2021
- Conference Coffee Break Networking Replacements: Gather.town, Wonder.me
- Science Gallery Bengaluru (Karnataka, India): Online Exhibition Phytopia
December 7, 2020: Decolonising academic heritage
- University of Glasgow, Historical Slavery Initiative
- Africa in the UMAC Database of University Museums and Collections
- Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature. Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity (2020)
- Modest, Wayne & Lelijveld, Robin (editors), Words Matter. An Unfinished Guide to Word Choices in the Cultural Sector (2018, Work in Progress)
- Subhadra Das & Miranda Lowe, Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections (2018, PDF)
- Natural Sciences Collections Association (UK): Youtube Channel
- Royal Holloway University of London with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: The Mobile Museum: Economic Botany in Circulation
November 2, 2020: Visualisation and online exhibition resources
- VZ-C6 Ceiling Visualizer
- Vizua 3D content platform
- German Digital Library: virtual exhibition platform DDBstudio
- University of Göttingen (Germany): digital exhibitions
Online Workshop: Digital after the crisis, June 25th: documentation
Digital after the crisis. Short term effects and long term impacts of COVID-19 on online collections and usage of digital tools for academic heritage
Thursday, June 25th 2020
Presentations
- Annelies Van de Ven (UCLouvain, Belgium)
One-block at a time: Overcoming imposter syndrome in a digital museum world
Presentation – Abstract - Slađana Savić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Chemistry, Serbia, The Great Serbian Chemists’ Collection)
We’ll meet online – An online exhibition at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry
Presentation – Abstract - Myrsini Pichou (Athens University History Museum, Greece)
Emmanouil in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic
Presentation
Other
About the Working Group
The Working Group Digital Initiatives started in 2015, with a workshop during the Universeum meeting in Athens. Since then we have organised workshops in Utrecht, Belgrade, Glasgow and Brno, around different topics on digital academic heritage (see below).
We, the current chairs of the Working Group, are: Delphine Issenmann, from the Jardin des sciences, Université de Strasbourg, Frank Meijer, from the Dutch Foundation for Academic Heritage and Martin Stricker from the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany.
We are always happy to meet you and work with you on one of our workshops during Universeum meetings. And in between: if you have any ideas, remarks or suggestions regarding the working group and its activities, please don’t hesitate to contact us (you’ll find our emails at the bottom of this page)!
Previous Workshops
Workshop at 2019 Universeum Network Meeting in Brno
Crowdsourcing
Thursday, June 20 2019, 9:00 – 12:00
Workshop at 2018 Universeum Network Meeting in Glasgow
The Human Factor
Friday 15th of June 2018, 10:00 – 12:30
Workshop Report Glasgow (PDF)
Workshop at 2017 Universeum Network Meeting in Belgrade
Friday 6th of June 2017, 15:30 – 19:00
Workshop Report Belgrade (PDF)
Workshop at 2016 Universeum Network Meeting in Amsterdam/Utrecht
Friday 10th of June 2016, 15.00 – 17.30
Workshop Report Utrecht (PDF)
Workshop at 2015 Universeum Network Meeting in Athens
Friday 12th of June 2015, 9:30 – 13:15
Presentations and Talks Athens (Zip Archive)
Contact
Delphine Issenman delphine.issenmann@unistra.fr
Frank Meijer f.t.meijer@academischerfgoed.nl
Martin Stricker martin.stricker@hu-berlin.de