NFDI4Culture

NFDI4Culture – Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage

Digital data on tangible and intangible cultural assets is an essential part of daily life, communication and experience. It has a lasting influence on the perception of cultural identity and on the interactions between research, cultural economy and society. The long-term preservation and reliable availability of digital cultural assets in line with the FAIR and CARE principles are fundamentally important for the cultural self-understanding of individuals, groups and society as a whole.

Looking forward to the 2nd NFDI conference

The second NFDI conference will take place on 8/9 July 2020 as a webinar. The conference will focus on mutual information and on networking between consortia. In addition, the DFG will provide general information on the NFDI and the newly founded NFDI Directorate will introduce itself. Read more on the NFDI conference website

The Consortium NFDI4Culture

NFDI4Culture consists of a geographically, thematically and institutionally balanced network of 9 co-applicants and 52 participants. It aims to ideally represent the broad spectrum of different actors in the cultural heritage domain. The co-applicants comprise four universities (Cologne, Heidelberg, Marburg, Paderborn), three infrastructure institutions (FIZ Karlsruhe, TIB Hannover, SLUB Dresden), Germany’s largest institution in the GLAM sector (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. This group is joined by 11 academic societies each representing one of the research domains that together make up the community of interest.

Spokesperson and Co-Spokespersons

Boards

Partner

Culture Coordination Office

Spokesperson

Prof. Torsten Schrade

Digital Humanities
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz

Co-Spokespersons

Task Area 1: Data capture and enrichment

Prof. Dr. Ina Blümel

Architecture, Information Infrastructure
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover

Reinhard Altenhöner

GLAM, Information Infrastructure
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Task Area 2: Standards, data quality and curation

Prof. Dr. Barbara Wiermann

Musicology, Information Infrastructure
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden

Dr. Christian Bracht

Art History, Information Infrastructure
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte

Task Area 3: Research tools and data service

Dr. Lisa Dieckmann

Art History, Computer Science
Universität zu Köln

Daniel Röwenstrunk

Business Informatics, Musicology
Universität Paderborn, Zentrum Musik – Edition

Task Area 4: Data publication and data availability

Dr. Maria Effinger

Art History, Open Access, Information Infrastructure
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Dr. Jens Bove

Art History, Information Infrastructure
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden

Task Area 5: Overarching technical, ethical and legal activities

Prof. Dr. Harald Sack

Information Service Engineering
FIZ Karlsruhe

Prof. Dr. Franziska Boehm

Jurisprudence
FIZ Karlsruhe

Task Area 6: Culture Research Data Academy

Prof. Dr. Malte Hagener

Media Studies
Philipps-Universität Marburg

Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay

Musicology
Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn

Boards

Prof. Dr. Holger Simon

Coordination of Steering Board
Verband deutscher Kunsthistoriker e.V.

Prof. Dr. Dörte Schmidt

Coordination of Advisory Council
Gesellschaft für Musikforschung

Partner

Scientific/Learned/Specialist Societies

Bund Deutscher Architekten e.V. (Dipl.-Ing. Heiner Farwick, Dr. Thomas Welter)
Bundesverband der theatersammelnden Institutionen in Deutschland (Stephan Dörschel)
Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V. (Michael Freundt)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA) (Dr. Alexander Dunst)
Fachgruppe Dokumentation, Deutscher Museumsbund (Marita Andó)
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften (Prof. Dr. Matthias Christen, Prof. Dr. Malte Hagener)
Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Prof. Dr. Dörte Schmidt)
Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (Mariama Diagne)
Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaften (Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Müller-Schoell)
International Association of Music Libraries and Documentation Centers (IAML), Deutschland (Dr. Ann Kersting-Meulemann)
International Musicological Society (Prof. Dr. Lindmayr-Brandl)
International Society for Music Information Retrieval (Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller)
Mediävistenverband, e.V. (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Drews, Prof. Dr. Gabriel Viehauser)
Rektorenkonferenz der deutschen Musikhochschulen (Prof. Dr. Susanne Rode-Breymann)
Rektorenkonferenz der deutschen Kunsthochschulen (Prof. Gabriele Langendorf)
Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Philipps- Universität Marburg (Dr. Christian Bracht, Prof. Dr. Hubert Locher)
Verband deutscher Kunsthistoriker e.V. (Prof. Dr. Kilian Heck, Prof. Dr. Holger Simon)
Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch)
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber)
Vereinigung der Landesdenkmalpfleger (Prof. Dr. Georg Skalecki)

Institutions and Working Groups

Arbeitskreis Digitale Kunstgeschichte (Dr. Georg Schelbert)
Arbeitskreis Digitale Rekonstruktion im DHd Verband (Dr. Sander Münster)
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung (TU Berlin) (Prof. Dr. Meike Hopp)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft kunsthistorischer Bildarchive und Fototheken (Dr. Jens Bove)
Architekturinstitut der Hochschule Mainz (AI MAINZ) (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Piotr Kuroczynski)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) München, FID Musikwissenschaft (Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Jürgen Diet)
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Dr. Martin Schawe, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maaz)
Bach-Archiv Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Peter Wollny)
Beethoven-Haus Bonn (Prof. Dr. Christine Siegert)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe (Prof. Dr. Dörte Schmidt)
Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian Koch)
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen)
Center for World Music (Universität Hildesheim) (Dr. Michael Fuhr)
Cinepoetics (BMBF-Projekt Affektrhetoriken des Audiovisuellen) (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan Hendrik Bakels)
Corpus Vitrearum International (Dr. Hartmut Scholz)
Corpus der Barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland (Prof. Dr. Stephan Hoppe)
CultLab3D, Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (Prof. Dr. Dieter Fellner, Pedro Santos)
DataCite – International Data Citation e.V. (Dr. Irina Sens)
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (Frank Frischmuth)
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris – DFK Paris (Max-Weber-Stiftung) (Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirchner)
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Dr. Elisabeth Niggemann, Jürgen Kett)
Deutscher Musikrat (Prof. Christian Höppner)
Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen (Heide-Marie Härtel)
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Prof. Dr. Frank-Manuel Peter)
DRA - Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv (Dr. Annemone Ligensa)
digiCULT Verbund e.G. (Dr. Jens Ahlers)
Europäisches Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (HMTM Hannover) (Prof. Dr. Sarah Roß, Samuel Mundt)
Exzellenzcluster “Religion und Politik” WWU Münster (Prof. Dr. Nils Jansen)
Fachinformationsdienst Darstellende Kunst (UB Frankfurt a.M.) (Franziska Voß)
Fachinformationsdienst Kunst - Fotografie - Design (arthistoricum.net) (UB Heidelberg/ SLUB Dresden) (Dr. Maria Effinger, Dr. Jens Bove)
Fachinformationsdienst Medien-, Kommunikations- und Filmwissenschaften (UB Leipzig) (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Dr. Sebastian Stoppe)
Fachinformationsdienst Musikwissenschaft (musiconn) (BSB München/ SLUB Dresden) (Jürgen Diet, Dr. Barbara Wiermann)
Fachinformationsdienst Nahost-, Nordafrika- und Islamstudien (ULB Sachsen-Anhalt) (Anke Berghaus-Sprengel)
Föderation deutschsprachiger Architektursammlungen (Dr. Hans-Dieter Nägelke)
Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater der Universität Bayreuth (Prof. Dr. Anno Mungen)
Forschungsservice Open Science, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Dr. Christiane Sibille)
Forschungsstelle Richard-Strauss Ausgabe (Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schick)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Dr. Peter Bell)
German Commission for UNESCO (Christine M. Merkel)
Germanisches Nationalmuseum – Leibniz Forschungsmuseum für Kulturgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Daniel Hess, Mark Fichtner, Dr. Frank P. Bär)
Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer)
Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger, Barbara Fichtl)
Hochschule Darmstadt – Pina Bausch Digital Archive (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Thull)
Hochschule Mainz, University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Dr. Kai-Christian Bruhn, Prof. Dr. Piotr Kuroczynski, Prof. Florian Jenett)
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Prof. Dr. Dr. Antoinette Maget Dominicé)
Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Abteilung Musikwissenschaft (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) (Prof. Dr. Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch)
Institut für Museumsforschung (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Graf, Prof. Monika Hagedorn-Saupe)
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin (Prof. Dr. Jan Lazardzig)
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulf Otto)
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi)
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Dokumentation Centres (Dr. Stanisław Hrabia)
International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller)
International Council of Museums / ICOM Germany (Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid)
Kompetenzzentrum Kulturerbe: materiell – immateriell – digital (Universität Paderborn) (Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Seng)
Koordinierungsstelle Brandenburg.digital (FH Potsdam) (Ulf Preuß)
Kulturhistorische Sammlungen der Leibniz Gemeinschaft (Dr. Helmuth Trischler)
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf, Dr. Costanza Caraffa)
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Prof. Dr. Hubertus Kohle, Prof. Dr. Stephan Hoppe)
Lehrstuhl für Musikethnologie (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) (Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge)
Mainzer Zentrum für Digitalität in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften (Prof. Dr. Kai Christian Bruhn)
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle / Hallische Händelausgabe (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hirschmann)
Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik (Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann)
Max Reger Institut (Dr. Alexander Becker)
Museen der Stadt Köln, Digital-Initiative „Museen 2022+“ (Martin Hegel)
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung (Dr. Frederik Berger, Dr. Christoph Häuser)
Music Encoding Initiative (Dr. Andrew Hankinson)
Musikabteilung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Dr. Martina Rebmann)
Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Josef Focht)
Nordemann Czychowski & Partner Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälte (Prof. Dr. Christian Czychowski)
Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V. (Elisa Lindinger)
ORCID (Laurel L. Haak)
Pelagios Commons (Dr. Rebecca Kahn)
Rathgen-Forschungslabor (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) (Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon)
Répertoire International des Sources Musicale Deutschland (Prof. Dr. Nicole Schwindt)
Répertoire International des Sources Musicale International (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann)
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales Schweiz (Dr. Laurent Pugin)
Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (Dr. Reiner Nägele, Dr. Dagmar Schnell)
SUB Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Wolfram Horstmann, Dr. Regine Stein)
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) (Dr. Thomas Ertelt)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SPK) (Dr. hc. NUACA Barbara Schneider-Kempf)
Swiss Institute for Art Research (PD Dr. Roger Fayet)
The Getty Research Institute (Kathleen Salomon)
Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung der Universität zu Köln (Dr. Dorothea Volz)
Time Machine (Prof. Dr. Sander Münster)
Universität der Künste, Berlin (Prof. Martin Rennert, Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz, Prof. Dr. Dr. Daniel D. Hromada)
Universität zu Köln (Dr. Claes Neuefeind, Data Center of the Humanities)
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. (Nikola Zeuner)
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer, Dr. Stephan Klingen)
Zentrum für digitale Kulturgüter in Museen (ZEDIKUM), Staatliche Museen (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) (Prof. Dr. Andreas Bienert)
Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste (Prof. Dr. Gilbert Lupfer)
Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe (Prof. Christiane Riedel)

Culture Coordination Office

Ortrun Brand

Philipps-Universität Marburg

Sarah Pittroff

Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz, Kunstgeschichte

Annika-Valeska Walzel

SLUB Dresden, Kunstgeschichte und LIS

ncco@nfdi4culture.de

The NFDI4Culture Community

Research Landscape

The research landscape addressed by NFDI4Culture is characterised by strong differentiation. Research units comprise university institutes, art colleges, academies, galleries, libraries, archives and museums of varying sizes and with very different prerequisites. Up to now, no coordinated professional research data management on a national level exists in this area. In a unique effort, this community of interest is tied together for the first time to create a user-centred, research-driven infrastructure that will cover a broad range of research domains from musicology, art history and architecture to performance, theatre, film, and media studies. NFDI4Culture consists of a geographically, thematically and institutionally balanced network of 9 co-applicants and 62 participants. It aims to ideally represent the broad spectrum of different actors in the cultural heritage domain. The co-applicants comprise four universities (Cologne, Heidelberg, Marburg, Paderborn), three infrastructure institutions (FIZ Karlsruhe, TIB Hannover, SLUB Dresden), Germany’s largest institution in the GLAM sector (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) and an Academy of Science. This group is joined by 11 academic societies each representing one of the research domains that together make up the community of interest.

Multimodal Data Types

NFDI4Culture Research Data

The research data targeted by NFDI4Culture is subject to specific requirements: First, it is necessary to differentiate between digital representations (reproductions) of cultural assets, including their metadata, and procedural research data resulting from research processes. Both stand in a complex and dynamic interdependence. Second, it must be taken into account that digital representations of cultural assets can become intangible cultural assets themselves (e.g. due to possible loss of the original). Third, tangible and intangible cultural assets are subject to complex legal and ethical conditions. Fourth, research data as an outcome of research processes on cultural assets is closely tied to the cultural economy that often utilises the results for economic purposes. The cultural products created from economic use can themselves become new objects of research. Users in NFDI4Culture’s community do not only generate data about their research objects – the research objects, their digital representations and their further use are bound together in constant exchange between science, economy and society.

Consequently, NFDI4Culture deals with multimodal data types on two levels: (1) digital representations of cultural assets, such as all forms of 2D digital reproductions (paintings, sculptures, sheet music, photography, performed works of art, etc.), 3D models of cultural assets (from artefacts to large man-made structures such as monuments and buildings) created by photogrammetric processes, laser-based 3D scanners or structured light systems, all types of audio-visual data (music, film, stage performances etc.). And (2) procedural research data, such as graphic formats (raster and vector including image metadata), formats for the digital depiction of music, computer-generated structures of cultural assets on the basis of CAD/CAAD or rendering programmes, computer-based simulations of cultural spaces or artistic performances, encoding and annotation formats (music encoding, image annotation, time tags and shape annotations for videos etc.), and a broad range of metadata and semantic models for the description of tangible and intangible cultural assets.

NFDI4Culture Task Areas

On the work programme

Against the background of multimodal data types in the cultural heritage domain 28 user stories were drafted in close dialogue between researchers from the participating communities and the provider institutions and aligned to the research data life cycle. NFDI4Culture’s work programme consists of 7 task areas with 33 measures and 120 tasks. The planned services respond to users needs from the level of data capture, collection and enrichment to the level of data analysis, data publication (taking into account complex ethical and legal questions), data reuse and training in code and data literacy.