New publication on the subject of object biographies and collection documentation now available:

From inventory to knowledge graph – object documentation through the ages, using the example of the Berlin Kunstkammer and its successor institutions by Diana Stört and Sarah Wagner

The objects in the Berlin Kunstkammer now form the basis of the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. This historical connection has resulted in over 400 years of documentation practices, which Diana Stört and Sarah Wagner are dedicated to researching. They are investigating how practices and media have changed in terms of their function and structure in a changing disciplinary context and what conclusions can be drawn from this for current documentation and digitization practices. Semantic web technologies, knowledge graphs, and the concept of object biography play a central role here, which are also fundamental to the generation and integration of data at NFDI4Objects.

In a DFG project, the holdings of the Berlin Kunstkammer were digitally catalogued using the concept of object biography based on source materials and the CIDOC CRM in a WissKI-based research environment. The dataset, comprising over 2,000 objects and associated source, actor, and location information, was therefore integrated into the NFDI4Objects knowledge graph, where the objects can now form new connections.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25364/32.2:2026.1.3

Downloadlink: https://unipub.uni-graz.at/musea/download/pdf/13333547