Task Area 4 - NFDI4Culture

Publication & Availability

Data publication and data availability

Within the cultural heritage domain, both repository providers and researches from all disciplines face increasing challenges concerning the publication and long-term digital preservation of research outputs. The growing complexity calls for an improvement of existing standards and the optimisation of services across the subject areas art history and architecture, musicology, performing arts as well as film and media studies. In close collaboration with the community, we aim to close gaps within the existing infrastructure and to establish sustainable and reliable services.

Repositories

Persons Research Outputs

With a view on the current service portfolio, the forum events offer a platform for repository providers and scholars alike to exchange expertise, share experiences and collectively identify requirements and gaps within existing infrastructures for publishing and preserving research outputs. Through this collaborative approach, we aim to establish standards that can be adopted across the NFDI4Culture community.

The consulting agency ensures expert support for researchers at all stages of the publication process in compliance with the FAIR principles, thereby focusing on enhanced publications and their archiving. We further advise regarding trustworthy repositories and services which are tailored to the needs of specific research disciplines.

Helpdesk

We will provide reusable reference implementations for service providers, ensuring that researchers in all disciplines addressed by NFDI4Culture have access to high quality publication and archiving solutions. Furthermore, we encourage and support repository providers to apply for certification of their service, thus increasing and promoting trust in their solutions.

The repository overview provides a selection of data services for the 4Culture community. In order to provide a free service for publishing and archiving research data across all NFDI4Culture communities, the repository RADAR4Culture was set up. It enables all researchers in the field of cultural heritage to publish any data type and format independent of institutional affiliation.

We develop methods for the preservation of composite (multimodal) digital objects in close collaboration with national and international stakeholders. In addition, we will define cost and operating models for preservation services. Our aim is to refine digital preservation methods, particularly for enhanced publications, 3D objects and annotated AV media.