3D4Vases - Three-dimensional Digitization of the Karlsruhe Vase Collection and Development of Descriptive Standards

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Eckart Köhne
• Subject Area: Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 525491526

The Baden State Museum is the cultural historical museum for the Baden part of Baden-Württemberg and is driving the digital transformation both by digitizing its collections and by developing new digital formats. As a universal museum, it has a wide range of collections that provide insights into more than 50.000 years of cultural and artistic history. Among the museum's finest collections is the collection of ancient vases, which comprises around 550 objects. Among landscape styles from Greece, Attica, Corinth, Boiotia, Rhodes, and Cyprus are represented; from Italy and Magna Graecia, early Italiotic, Apulian, Campanian, Paestanian, Lucanian, Etruscan, and local Italic pottery is represented. The foundation of this collection was obtained in the 19th century by the art agent Friedrich Maler and is considered the founding act of the Karlsruhe Collection of Classical Antiquities and a milestone in the museum history of Baden-Württemberg. The project "3D4Vases – Three-dimensional Digitization of the Karlsruhe Vase Collection and Development of Descriptive Standard Procedures" aims at the new possibilities and potentials of 3D digitization and is structured in five work packages: 1. Project management, in order to optimally deploy the museum team and the requested staff; 2. The 3D digitization of at least 300 vases and the 2D digitization of the entire collection; 3. The new scientific examination of the entire collection; 4. The further development of standards for vocabularies and thesauri of ancient vases in continuation of previous pilot projects; 5. The publication of all data according to CCO in the Digital Catalog of the museum, which must be expanded into a data portal for the presentation of research data, as well as the implementation of digital tools for annotation and education. The implementation of the work program in cooperation with national and international universities as well as NFDI4Culture and NFDI4Objects will make an important contribution to positioning the Baden State Museum as a fully-fledged and networked partner in the ongoing initiatives to develop research data.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigators: Susanne Erbelding; Dr. Alexander Wolny