PAESE 3.0 — Provenance and Collection Research Digital

Overview

Full Title: Provenienz- und Sammlungsforschung Digital — Teilprojekt: PAESE 3.0
Funding: zukunft.niedersachsen (Lower Saxony state funding program)
Duration: 4-year initiative
Co-directors: Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother (Leuphana) and Dr. Claudia Andratschke (Landesmuseum Hannover / Network for Provenance Research in Lower Saxony)
Project Manager (academic): Agustina Andreoletti
Part of: ProSaDi (Scientific Space for Provenance and Collection Research Digital), coordinated by Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

Description

PAESE 3.0 builds on the original PAESE project (Provenance Research in Ethnographic Collections in Lower Saxony, 2018–2022, funded by Volkswagen Foundation) — the first project of its kind on collections from colonial contexts in Germany.

The project aims to make collected data usable for computer-aided analyses, transforming colonial and postcolonial museum provenance information into Linked Open Data (LOD). Special focus is placed on geographical information and its digital representation — a particularly complex challenge given colonial territorial divisions and changing national borders.

Goals

Make colonial provenance data usable for computer-aided analyses
Transform colonial and postcolonial museum provenance information into LOD
Enable cross-collection analysis of colonial power relations
Address complexity of geographical information under colonial territorial divisions
Integrate with the CCC portal (Collections from Colonial Contexts) of the German Digital Library (Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek)

Implementation Sites

Bremerhaven, Göttingen, Hanover, Lüneburg, Oldenburg

ProSaDi Network

PAESE 3.0 is part of the larger ProSaDi cooperative project, which develops digital techniques for research and presentation of collection items removed from contexts of origin (colonialism, war, looting, persecution, market dynamics). Funded through at least October 31, 2028.

ProSaDi URL: https://prosadi.de/
Partner institutions: University of Oldenburg (lead), Jade University, Leibniz University Hannover, Leuphana, several museums

Dr. Claudia Andratschke (Co-director)

Head of Collections+Research Department at the Landesmuseum Hannover. Coordinator of the Provenance Research Network in Lower Saxony (comprising ~60 members and partners from museums, libraries, archives, and associations since 2015). Studied art history, medieval history, modern history, and law in Braunschweig and Tübingen. Doctorate from University of Tübingen.