10th Workshop - Digitisation in the geoscientific collections: From AQUiLA to DINA

Geoscience collections form an essential basis for research and teaching and require sustainable, digital cataloguing concepts. As part of the DFG funding line for the cataloguing and digitisation of object-related scientific collections, a central pilot project was implemented in the Department of Geosciences from 2012 to 2020. In the course of the project, a web-based database structure was developed that integrates all relevant attributes for describing heterogeneous collection objects. The AQUiLAgeo database, developed by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research on behalf of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, has been online and publicly accessible since 2017. It also makes a significant contribution to the DINA consortium.

The 10th workshop ‘Digitisation in the geoscientific collections’ presents the DINA project – Digital Information System for Natural History Data. The information system is aimed equally at collection managers and specialist scientists from the fields of zoology, botany, mycology, geology, palaeontology and living collections.

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