Philipp Messner is a cultural scholar and scientific archivist. After working for many years at the UZH Archives, the central archives of the University of Zurich, he has been responsible for the public poster collection of the SfG Basel since 2020. As an archivist, he is practically concerned not only with the preservation of historical material, but above all with making it accessible and, not least, with questions of a future-oriented creation of documentary heritage.
Within the framework of the research project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts he is interested in the possibility of a multi-perspectival description of archival material and information objects related to it with the help of the open-source software Wikibase.
