The research network DiViAS brings together scientific methods and practices of digitising, researching and representing collection items from colonial contexts. As such, the project systematically combines expertise from the fields of museum-, history- and cultural studies with that of technology and computer science – including artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, geoinformatics and threedimensional measurement technology. The project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within the programme "zukunft.niedersachsen (future.Lower Saxony)".