data portal

Data portal as creative engine

By Tina Schneider in Media and Storytelling

27.01.2023

A constantly growing selection of digital collection objects of the Museum für Naturkunde is freely accessible to all interested parties in the data portal. What creative or experimental possibilities arise from this offer and what might example projects look like? Together with nine international Master’s students from the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln, we explored this question. For the first time the data portal became part of a curriculum at a higher education institution.

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Collection discovery simply explained

A guest contribution By Martin Wimmer & Max Kaplan in Media and Storytelling

30.11.2022

What do you have in your collection? Why do you want to digitize it? How exactly do you do that? What’s in it for us? Probably every museum knows these questions. With this healthy curiosity, visitors and users of exhibitions and collections make museum employees ponder. How can you answer such complex questions quickly? Quite simply: with short explanatory films.

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Data portal: Update

By Jens Dobberthin in Lab

08.10.2021

We used the summer break and updated the data portal. We briefly present the most important changes here.

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Your Ocean Sound – Portrait: Artur Sommerfeld

By Christel Clerc in Media and Storytelling

22.06.2021

In spring of this year, we organized the hackathon „Your Ocean Sound“ . 130 audio files with biotic and abiotic ocean sounds inspired the participants to create almost 30 compositions. In this last post of our series, we introduce you to participant Artur Sommerfeld.

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Your Ocean Sound – Portraits: Cathal Kerins und Alexandra Tamayo

By Christel Clerc in Media and Storytelling

16.06.2021

In spring of this year, we organized the hackathon „Your Ocean Sound“ . 130 audio files with biotic and abiotic ocean sounds inspired the participants to create almost 30 compositions. In this post, we introduce you to participants Cathal Kerins and Alexandra Tamayo.

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Your Ocean Sound - Portrait: Francisca Rocha Gonçalves

By Christel Clerc in Media and Storytelling

10.06.2021

In spring of this year, we organized the hackathon „Your Ocean Sound“ . 130 audio files with biotic and abiotic ocean sounds inspired the participants to create almost 30 compositions. In this post, we introduce you to participant Francisca Rocha Gonçalves.

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Your Ocean Sound – Portrait: Hanna Brühwiler

By Christel Clerc in Media and Storytelling

01.06.2021

In spring of this year, we organized the hackathon „Your Ocean Sound“ . 130 audio files with biotic and abiotic ocean sounds inspired the participants to create almost 30 compositions. In this post we introduce you to the winner Hanna Brühwiler.

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Getting started with the API

By Jens Dobberthin in Lab

14.04.2021

This blog post is the prelude to a series of posts in which we show how you can use the API of the data portal to build your own data-driven applications. As a starter we will serve an interactive map inside a Jupyter Notebook.

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Everybody likes Maps

By Jasper Funk-Smit in Lab

12.04.2021

Everybody likes Maps, and when a collection is so large and diverse as ours it can be useful to get an idea about where all these bugs, minerals, sounds, fossils and other items actually came from. To facilitate this we developed a tool called Map Explorer which is an integrative part of our recently launched Data Portal .

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“Your Ocean Sound” in our data portal

By Christel Clerc and Nadja Tata in Events

16.03.2021

This spring, we’re combining underwater noise and our newly released data portal with the music hackathon “Your Ocean Sound”. Your creativity is needed! We will present the winners at our next Mediasphere Meetup on April 26.

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