NFDI4Objects and The Wildbiome Project
Ivan Calandra (DE) and
Roeland Paardekooper (DE)
Ilse Donker (NL)
This episode of EXARC Showcase highlights not one but two projects EXARC members are currently involved in. Your hosts are Matilda Siebrecht and Jess Shaw.
The first is NFDI4Objects, a multidisciplinary consortium within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Its aim is to create an easy template to help experimenters structure their experiments and to ensure consistency and comparability between different experiments. To achieve this a workflow tool is developed that allows experimenters to build a visual representation of their experimental design. NFDI4Objects and the RETOLD Project have similar objectives. Roeland Paardekooper, one of the main partners in RETOLD, explains.
 | Ivan is head of the imaging platform at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) and co-chair of NFDI4Objects’ community cluster Experimental Archaeology, or Experimentele Archäologie. Ivan's EXARC profile |
 | Roeland is founder of EXARC and currently manages the largest digitalization project in the German museum world. Roeland's EXARC profile |
The Wildbiome Project seeks to understand what happens to the gut microbiome when you survive by foraging and eating wild food only. It will assess the impact on microbiome composition and key health parameters of people eating an exclusively wild food diet. Participants will do so for one or three months.
 | Ilse is a re-enactor, forage guide and educator and a participant in The Wildbiome Project. Ilse's EXARC profile. |