Beyond the Item
The bITEM project - short for Beyond the Item - Biographies and
Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond - aims
to present well-known museum objects in a state-of-the-art web
application that is freely accessible online. The objects and their
biographies are vividly described and, in addition to images and
texts, 3D models as digital twins, timelines, and story maps are made
available. Furthermore, the objects are presented with important
actors in network visualizations.
Object bibliographies thus become traceable and the journey of the
exhibits to the museum is easy to understand.
Within the project, data is digitized according to the
FAIR principles.
Data are mapped using
CIDOC CRM
and provided online.
OpenAtlas is used
as backend to acquire, edit and manage data. It is entirely built
upon open source software.
Research and development at the within the bITEM project at the
NHM Wien
as well as at the LBI ArchPro
is funded by the go!digital 3.0
program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
(GD3.0_2021-17).
More information and functionalites will be there soon! Please check in again to follow our progress.
Team
Principal Investigators
Viola Winkler
Zoologist as well as operator for the MicroCT and the NHMW 3D
Lab
Roland Filzwieser
Historian and digital humanist with focus on archaeological
prospection and landscape archaeologist
Core Team
Stefan Eichert
Archaeologist and digital humanist
Nikola Brodtmann
Geographer with focus on geology
Anna Haider
Zoologist and expert for 3D scanning
Sandrina Schwarz
Data acquisition
Nina Richards
Geographer with focus on geology
Additional Support
Mathias Harzhauser
Geologist and paelontologist
Andreas Kroh
Geologist and taxonomist
Caroline Posch
Archaeologist
Johannes Preiser-Kappeller
Analyst for historical networks
Alexander Watzinger
Software developer
Host Institutions and Contact
Natural History Museum Vienna
(NHMW)
Contact: Viola Winkler
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection & Virtual
Archaeology (LBI ArchPro)
Contact: Roland Filzwieser
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
(ACDH-CH)
Contact: Nina Richards
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