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Group picture with students and lecturers of the Master’s program “Digital Narratives”, Tina Schneider (Mfn), ifs-Prof. Lena Thiele and lecture Maren Demant
© Martin Wimmer, MfN

Experimenting with the data portal of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Students make digital experiments with Mediasphere for Nature

How can high-definition images of insects and historical drawings come to life in the digital realm? In a collaboration between the ifs’ MA Digital Narratives and “Mediasphere For Nature”, the lab for digital media from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN)! Students of the Master’s programme were challenged to experiment on creative ways to work with two datasets of the digital media collection of the museum. In just three weeks, they were introduced to technologies some had never even tried before, received expert information about the science behind the datasets, and were asked to produce and present a prototype for their ideas.

The MfN is developing an open, digital-analogue knowledge infrastructure that meets future scientific, societal, and technological requirements. The museum’s collection is being sustainably developed, i.e. secured by conservation, digitally recorded and made accessible for innovative uses. As part of the cooperation, the museum’s lab for digital media Mediasphere For Nature and the MA Programme Digital Narratives from the ifs organized a creative workshop as an element of the seminar “Production Exercise 1”.

Find out more about the collaboration and the prototypes the students created in just three weeks in the new MA Digital Narratives Medium blog here.
And visit the Blog of Mediasphere For Nature here.

In the Lepidoptera Collection (butterflies), which is otherwise closed to visitors
© Maren Demant
In the Lepidoptera Collection
© Tina Schneider
ifs-students looking at the original Ehrenberg drawings
© Tina Schneider
Frederik Berger first provided a general introduction to the museum’s collection discovery and development before presenting the DISC3D scanner to the students.
© Tina Schneider
In the hall of the “ digitize! ” exhibition
© Maren Demant
ifs students exploring the exhibition
© Maren Demant
Excursion to the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
© Tina Schneider
Excursion to the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
© Tina Schneider
Excursion to the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
© Nadja Tata
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