Begüm Inal is a project manager and research associate in the DFG-funded project “The Digital Archive of the Städelschule, 1920–1950” at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts. She works at the intersection of archival practice, digital humanities, and art history, and is responsible for the cross-collection cataloging and digitization of heterogeneous archival materials, as well as the development of digital workflows to consolidate dispersed collections.

Her work focuses on digital provenance research, data interoperability, and the critical examination of historical records from the period 1920–1950, including documents from the Nazi era. She reflects on the formation of institutional archives and asks: Which perspectives are missing, what was deliberately archived or omitted, and how is discriminatory language in historical documents addressed?