Rīga Stradinš University Anatomy Museum Anthropological Survey Digitisation Project

  • Diāna Jakseboga (Speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Description

RSU Anatomy Museum stores a collection of anthropological expedition materials of the 1920s-1930s. The collection includes anthropological surveys, photographic materials and anthropometric instruments. The aim is to research and preserve this collection.. Descriptive method.. In 2021, a digitization project was started in cooperation with healthcare solution company "Roche Latvia" and Statistics Unit at Rīga Stradinš University. As a result of this project 11 313 surveys were digitized, from expeditions that took place in the 1930s, in Vidzeme, Kurzeme and Zemgale regions. The selected storage place for the digitized data was the e-resources repository - the RSU Dspace platform, which is a safe and convenient enough place to store these data, as well as to enable access to these resources for research purposes. Considering that the information displayed in the surveys contains sensitive personal data, restricted access has been imposed to view them. You must contact the collection manager to open and view the surveys.. Digitization is a good way to preserve materials, as well as to find and collect information faster and more efficiently. It is good research material to see what the average Latvian person looked like. During the research process it was found that the museum storage holds most, but not all materials of the anthropological expeditions.
Period29 Mar 2023
Event titleRSU International Research Conference 2023: Knowledge for Use in Practice
Event typeConference
OrganiserRīga Stradiņš University
LocationRiga, LatviaShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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