Annual conference of the three German classical studies associations 2024

NFDI4Objects at the association’s conference from 7 to 11 October 2024 in Bochum

This year, the annual conference of the three German classical studies associations will take place in Bochum from 7 to 11 October 2024. It is being organised by the Northwest German Association for Classical Studies (NWVA) in cooperation with the German Mining Museum Bochum, the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum.

The full programme can be found on the conference homepage at https://va-bochum-2024.de/.

NFDI4Objects will be represented on Wednesday, 9 October 2024, from 8:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the focus topic “From digitally supported excavations to digital services in archaeology” with several speakers from the consortium on the topic of research data management in archaeology.

From 9:50 a.m., our co-spokesperson, Kai-Christian Bruhn, will give a lecture on “Competencies in research data management: an attempt at differentiation”. Afterwards, from 10:10 a.m., Bernard Weisser (co-spokesperson) and Max Resch will speak about digital security documentation in the museum context.

After the coffee break, from 11:00 a.m., Philipp von Rummel, spokesperson for the consortium, and Christin Keller, managing director of the consortium, will give an overview of the research data infrastructure NFDI4Objects.

In the afternoon, Anja Gerber and Domenic Städtler will present the minimal data set from 3:00 p.m. and Florian Thiery, Lasse Mempel-Länger, Kristina Fella, Allard Mees, Stefanie Baars, Angela Berthold and Andreas Puhl will then present current developments and offers from the NFDI4Objects work areas Task Area 2: Collecting and Task Area 4: Protecting.

Finally, Yiu-Kang (Gary) Hsu, Jan Sessing, Ingolf Löffler and Thomas Stöllner (co-speaker) will give an insight into a data model for a research infrastructure for managing FAIR data/metadata in archaeometric laboratories from 5:20 p.m.

We look forward to your participation!