Technical, Ethical & Legal
Overarching technical, ethical and legal activities
We offer information and clarification for researchers and institutions regarding data rights and ethical questions, such as copyright, property and personal rights (data protection), as well as treatment of culturally sensitive objects. We assist in keeping research data as open and easily accessible as possible and compliant with the FAIR principles and ethical guidelines by clarifying legal issues and reducing legal uncertainty.
The legal team evaluates and analyses practical scenarios of research-driven data usage. It advises the NFDI4Culture consortium internally and formulates reports for legislators, public administration and governments both nationally and at the level of EU law. Our activities seek to raise awareness for the legal conditions and subsequent needs of researchers, authors and exploiters alike.
A stakeholder process will be initiated with data providers from inside and outside the cultural heritage domain. With the implementation of a Legal Helpdesk and the formation of a competence centre, NFDI4Culture works towards data accessibility and reusability in line with the FAIR principles.
The Culture Knowledge Graph aims to be a connector for all research data produced within the NFDI4Culture subject areas. This will enable overarching search functionality and access to the research data collections distributed internally, across the consortium and beyond. We will build this by using existing data in the Linked Open Data format as well as working with data providers to convert and integrate their digital assets. We will make use of W3C standard technologies and standard metadata formats that are already recognized by the Culture community.
NFDI4Culture offers a wide range of services by many different teams. We aim to make all those services easily accessible via one single point of contact that fulfills the needs of researchers, data providers, GLAM institutions and students alike Therefore, the Culture Information Portal is being continuously enhanced to integrate new services and information.
The Linked Open Data Working Group is a format to discuss linked open data within NFDI4Culture and help data providers prepare their data for integration into the Culture Knowledge Graph. It currently meets once a month to discuss various topics of interests, such as tools for linked open data, data modelling and new developments of the knowledge graph. To stay up to date on upcoming meetings, events and other developments, sign up for our mailing list here: https://lists.nfdi.de/postorius/lists/nfdi4culture-lod.lists.nfdi.de
Team
Research Outputs
Ontologies/Vocabularies
Use Cases
- Windows on data: How the Corpus Vitrearum integrates valuable research data on medieval stained glass into NFDICulture
- Comprehensive consulting: How the NFDI4Culture Helpdesk supports research data management at the Berlin University of the Arts
- Expert Guidance: The Legal Helpdesk as a Central Point of Contact for Legal Questions in Research Data Management
- Creative Collaboration Opens New Dimensions in Research: The Cross-NFDI Hackathon 2022
Knowledge Base
- Upload of scientific video contributions
- Audiovisual Materials in Research and Teaching – an Overview of Copyright Aspects
- Culture Graph Interchange Format
- Culture Community Report 2021
- Culture Community Report 2022
- Upload of scientific video contributions
- Data integration into the Culture Knowledge Graph
- Communication Policy on the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance in NFDI4Culture
Publications, Slides, Blogposts, etc.
- Report: First User Research Workshop on Terminology Services in NFDI4Culture
- Position Paper: NFDI comments on the EU Data Act
- Position Paper: NFDI comments on the draft implementing regulation concerning the availability of public data sets
- Position Paper: Stellungnahme zum Referentenentwurf für eine Verordnung zur Nutzung nicht verfügbarer Werke
- Position Paper: NFDI Stellungnahme zum Daten-Governance-Gesetz
- Position Paper: NFDI Stellungnahme zur öffentlichen Konsultation zum Forschungsdatengesetz
- Guideline: RADAR4Culture: Handreichung zu personenbezogenen Daten [deutsch]
- Abstract: Knowledge Graphs (and Wikibase) for Research Data Management in NFDI4Culture
- Presentation: Wikibase and the challenges and possibilities of knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture
- Presentation: From Floppy Disks to 5-Star LOD: FAIR Research Infrastructure for NFDI4Culture
- Presentation: Knowledge Graph-basierte Forschungsdatenintegration in NFDI4Culture
- Conference Paper: Knowledge Graph-basierte Forschungsdatenintegration in NFDI4Culture
- Conference Paper: From Floppy Disks to 5-Star LOD: FAIR Research Infrastructure for NFDI4Culture
- Conference Poster: Wikibase4Research: Free and open source suite of tools for the storage and management of Linked Open Data (LOD)
- Conference Paper: The Case for a Common, Reusable Knowledge Graph Infrastructure for NFDI
- Conference Paper: Knowledge Graph based RDM solutions
- Poster Paper: WissKI Viewer. Casual Access for WissKI Data Sets
- Research Paper: NFDI4Culture: Forschungsdaten in den Kulturwissenschaften. In: Tipping Points
- Blog Post: TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1. Reflecting on questions of sustainability, growing the ecosystem of decentralized data repositories and ensuring knowledge equity
- Blog Post: TIB at WikidataCon: Part 2. Focus on TIB’s conference contribution
- Proposition: Sektionskonzept Meta(daten), Terminologien und Provenienz zur Einrichtung einer Sektion im Verein Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) e.V.
- Proposition: Sektionskonzept Ethical, Legal & Social Aspects (section-ELSA)
- Blog Post: Sustainable community building with the Wikibase Stakeholder Group – presentation at FOSDEM 2022
- Blog Post: SUCHO x NFDI4Culture: eine Kollaboration zur Rettung des ukrainischen Kulturerbes
- Conference Proceedings: Open refine to wikibase: a new data upload pipeline
- Research Paper: Digitalisierung des Kulturellen und digitale Arbeitskultur im Forschungsverbund NFDI4Culture. Community-Arbeit an, durch und mit fachspezifischen Datenkorpora und Elementen der FDM-Infrastruktur
- Blog Post: Examining Wikidata and Wikibase in the context of research data management applications
- Blog Post: Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research services for cultural heritage data
- Workshop Proceedings: Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data
- Grant Application: KGI4NFDI: Knowledge Graph Infrastructure for the German National Research Data Infrastructure
- Conference Paper: Communities, Harvesting, and CGIF: Building the Research Data Graph at NFDI4Culture
- Poster Paper: Towards a common data model for semantic annotation of digital media: A new FOSS toolchain
- Conference Poster: Semantische Annotation als Plugin - ANTELOPE
- Dataset: Linked Open Data Management Services: a comparison
- Conference Paper: Who is using Knowledge Graphs in NFDI? An overview by the Working Group "Knowledge Graphs"
- Conference Paper: Semantic Annotation of Heterogeneous, Multimedia Cultural Research Data - A FOSS Toolchain for the Digital Humanities
- Presentation: The case for a common, reusable Knowledge Graph Infrastructure for NFDI
- Presentation: Knowledge Graph-Based Research Data Management – NFDI4Culture, NFDI-MatWerk, NFDI4DataScience and more...
- Conference Poster: Towards a common data model for semantic annotation of digital media: A new FOSS toolchain.
- Blog Post: An automated Wikibase deployment pipeline for research data management
- Website: OpenRefine to Wikibase: Data Upload Pipeline
- Educational Resource: Entscheidungsbaum: Datenschutzkonformes internes Teilen von Forschungsdatensätzen
- Educational Resource: Datenschutzrechtliche Aspekte zum Video-Upload auf Video-Plattformen. Langfassung juristischer Ausführungen
- Article: Should I CARE about FAIR? – Ein rechtlicher Blick auf die Prinzipien des Forschungsdatenmanagements. In: Recht und Zugang (RuZ) 1/2023, 5–29
- Presentation: Communities, Harvesting, and CGIF: Building the Research Data Graph at NFDI4Culture
- Presentation: What's Cooking in the NFDI4Culture Kitchen? A KG-based Research Data Integration Workflow.
- Conference Paper: NFDI4Culture und Text+ – Kartierung einer Zusammenarbeit
- Conference Paper: Forschungsdatenmanagement-Services für Linked Open Data: Ein Vergleich
- Educational Resource: Entscheidungsbaum: Risiko-Einschätzung bei Forschungsdaten in der Bauforschung
- Presentation: Vogelfrei? – Rechtliche Grenzen beim Heben und Nutzen der "Datenschätze"
- Conference Paper: What's Cooking in the NFDI4Culture Kitchen? A KG-based Research Data Integration Workflow
- Article: Gotta Catch'em All: From Data Silos to a Knowledge Graph
- Presentation: Knowledge Graph-based Research Data Integration for NFDI4Culture and Beyond. E-Science-Tage 2025, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Presentation: NFDI4Culture Ontologies and Use Case
- Abstract: A Knowledge Graph-Based Data Integration Workflow for NFDI4Culture and Beyond. Base4NFDI User Conference 2024 (UC4B2024), Berlin
- Abstract: The NFDICore Ontology And Related Modular Domain Ontologies For NFDI4Culture – NFDI-MatWerk – NFDI4DataScience – NFDI4Memory And Beyond. Base4NFDI User Conference 2024 (UC4B2024), Berlin.
- Presentation: The NFDIcore Ontology and Related Modular Domain Ontologies for NFDI4Culture - NFDI-MatWerk - NFDI4DataScience - NFDI4Memory and Beyond. Base4NFDI User Conference 2024 (UC4B2024), Berlin.
- Presentation: A Knowledge Graph-Based Data Integration Workflow for NFDI4Culture and Beyond. Base4NFDI User Conference 2024 (UC4B2024), Berlin.