New publication: Akhlaq, S., Bates, I. E., & Depraetere, M. (2026). Making the Labour Visible Behind the Tendaguru Dinosaur Collection Through Wikidata. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 12: 20, pp. 1–10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.476

New publication: Díez Díaz, V., Akhlaq, S., Depraetere, M., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. (2025). Risks and Responsibilities: The German Tendaguru Collection as Cultural Heritage and Its 3D Digitisation. In: Ioannides, M., Issini, G., Oliveira, D. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13577. Springer, Cham. . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93753-8_5

Awarded TheMuseumLab 2025 fellowship. Theme of this year is 'Colonialism and Resistance'.

New publication: Díez Díaz, V., Akhlaq, S., Kaiser, K. et al. (2025). Nat. Rev. Biodivers. 1, 145–146 (2025). Digitization as a research methodology in colonial natural history collections. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00031-2

New Publication: Depraetere, M., Akhlaq, S., Díaz, V.D., Heumann, I., Schwarz, D. (2025). Virtual Access to Fossil & Archival Material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913): More Than 100 years of Data-Meta-paradata Management for Improved Standardisation.In: Ioannides, M., Baker, D., Agapiou, A., Siegkas, P. (eds) 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_8

Organising and facilitating series of internal workshops, as part of the project Virtual access to fossil and archival material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913), in order to discuss just representation of musuem data of colonial nature

Organised and facilitated workshop, titled Thinking Through Tendaguru Dinosaurs, with Tanzanian Scholars in order to discuss highliting colonial influences in museum data