Jana Hoffmann

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Dr. Jana Hoffmann is co-lead of the Science Program Collection Future at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN). The science program stands for the efforts to transform the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin into an open knowledge infrastructure for nature. This is intended to create a new basis for novel, multi-perspective forms of research and knowledge transfer in an open and integrated research museum. Jana Hoffmann’s research focuses on the question of how innovative forms of access and use of collections in research museums can be designed that simultaneously enable the active participation of society, business and politics and promote innovation. In this context, she is concerned, among other things, with the question of how collections at research museums not only provide knowledge gains for the museum’s research, but also inspire the other research disciplines as well as the cultural and creative industries. With her doctorate in biology, Jana Hoffmann has a strong connection to the museum’s research topics.

All Sessions by Jana Hoffmann

  • Day 2

    June 28, 2023 (CEST)

  • 11:30  - 12:00
    Research museums are ideal ambassadors and disseminators for the Open Science movement. They also can create visibility for transformational changes in organization by acting as a 'show room' for Open Science practices, implementations and demonstrators. In 2020 the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) – a research museum of the Leibniz Association - was given the unique chance to transform its scientific collections, buildings and exhibitions as part of the Zukunftsplan of the MfN funded by the German Bundestag. The project Collection Discovery and Development of the Zukunftsplan aims to build an open knowledge infrastructure for nature that promotes multi- perspective thinking and action. Within the ten-year project, the scientific collection at MfN will become an open research infrastructure, fully integrated into the European open knowledge landscape as a modern information hub designed to be both physically and virtually interoperable. This talk will give an overview of the ongoing transformation process at MfN and all its aspects promoting Open Science principles. It will highlight the successful approaches, as well as challenges in applying Open Science principles on organizational level. The aim is to spark a debate on how to tackle the transformation of entire organizations in a more pragmatic and transparent way.



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