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Jason Dunlop, curator of the 🕷️ arachnid & 🐛 myriapod collections at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin talks about...

🔸 Challenges in digitizing old collections.
🔸 Consistent naming of geographic locations.
🔸 And much more...

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/gufqUlB1Fu4

#spiders #millipedes #centipedes #webinar #WiNoDa #arachnids #insects #museumcollections

Minna Takala: New Archetype for Museums. “The most obvious new aspect of the Storehouse is that it is totally transparent, exposing the collection of 250,000 objects to public viewing. The building is literally a warehouse (like Amazon) where you can walk inside the corridors like in an IKEA store to see the objects placed on shelves.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/minna-takala-new-archetype-for-museums/

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 "𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲" 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝘁!

Have a look to discover the 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 when applied to collections 🦋

#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum

https://youtu.be/voyPWZ5qR0s?si=inOxSKiHxMcrSF09

📹 Part 3 of our playlist 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴 is online!

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭:
-> Object-recognition with AI on the example of insects.
-> Use cases of Segment Anything and Grounding DINO

#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum #objectrecognition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxAEGVKQZnk

🎥 Part 2 of our playlist 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴 is online!

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭:
-> semi-automated label-transciptions
-> error-rates

#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu7WcnuWrw8

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📽️ The video of the 𝐊𝐢𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 is now online!

If you missed the webinar, you now have the chance to watch it anytime and learn how the Kiebids framework could be useful in your work.

Watch the first video right now and stay tuned for the whole playlist on 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴.

#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8evb0mh9OWo

Chicago Sun-Times: Griffin MSI lets online visitors experience 1893 World’s Fair — and more . “The free searchable database will feature 7,000 pieces from the museum’s 35,000-item collection. Images that are being uploaded encompass far more than pieces from the 1893 World’s Fair.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/chicago-sun-times-griffin-msi-lets-online-visitors-experience-1893-worlds-fair-and-more/