[WiNoDa Conference] Beyond drawers and spreadsheets: the journey of object-related data
Have you been hoping for more interaction with the wider WiNoDa community, after two years of online and sometime asynchronous exchange? Do you have a project or a tool you think fellow researchers and curators could really benefit from?
Then register for the upcoming WiNoDa conference “Beyond drawers and spreadsheets: the journey of object-related data”, taking place on October 21st 2026, at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin! Due to the international nature of our community, it will be possible to participate in some sessions also online.
We invite all those working with object-related data, with a focus on natural history and archaeological collections. Whether you’re a collection manager, researcher, student, curator or data steward, we’re looking forward to hearing your perspective and to the interdisciplinary exchange that our varied community will surely foster.
The conference will be the perfect occasion to present data-related projects, tools and ideas, receive feedback and connect with fellow data enthusiasts, but also to help us reflect on what WiNoDa achieved so far and what could be interesting to implement in the future.
You’ll have the chance to present your work through a 5-minute lightning talk combined with a poster, or just with a poster. For participants attending online, we will arrange a Zoom link for the lightning presentation and create an online interactive repository for the posters. Participants are also welcome to send us their posters.
We are looking for submissions related to:
- Tools for management, analysis, enrichment, and visualisation of data
- Digitisation of (natural science) collections
- Legal frameworks and ethical issues in working with natural science collections
- Data collection in the field
- Open science and publication of collection data
- Learning and teaching data competencies
- Data science and public engagement
- Artificial Intelligence and natural science collections
Bonus point if you decide to attend in presence, besides all the good coffee and chats: at the end of the conference we’ll get a guided tour behind the curtains of some of MfN’s collections!
A detailed program will follow soon. Registrations are open until August 20th.