NFDI4Culture Community Art History

Art history is the discipline of the human sciences that examines works of art within their historical, cultural, political, and social contexts. The canon of the classical genres of art history, such as architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and the decorative arts, is continuously expanding to include new forms of artistic expression (such as audiovisual works, performances, etc.). The introduction of digital methods and processes has emerged the field of digital art history.

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Data, data formats, and data management constitute an essential part of the daily work of art historians across all professional areas. This necessitates the continuous expansion of digital skills and existing structures to effectively represent and organize the field's diverse manifestations. Against the backdrop of increasingly dynamic digital transformation, it is more than ever the mission of art history to establish resilient structures for preserving cultural heritage (in both physical and digital spaces). Furthermore this includes the critical reflection on research findings and the procession of these to results in a standardized, audience-oriented manner to ensure sustainable access for both the specialist community and the general public.

The aim of NFDI4Culture is to support exchange within and between the communities through a wide range of needs-based services as consulting, training and infrastructure – for a future-proof, networked and internationally relevant art history with societal impact.

In Germany the Arbeitskreis Digitale Kunstgeschichte (within the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker) in particular has made it its mission to promote and connect those who are active in this field. arthistoricum.net – the Specialised Information Service Art, Design, Photography (FID Kunst) – promotes digital research and open access publications on European art and art history, including photography and design.

Members of the NFDI4Culture Steering Board Community Representatives

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Dr. Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert
Dr. Georg Schelbert

Services for you! NFDI4Culture Services

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Annotation, Terminology Lookup and Personalization (Antelope)

Antelope is a free, open source service to support your data annotation. It offers terminology search, entity linking, and easy integration into your projects.

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arthistoricum.net: Bibliographies

In collaboration with scholars and research groups, the University Library Heidelberg hosts and maintains sustainable,...

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arthistoricum.net: recensio.artium

recensio.artium compiles reviews of art historical literature on arthistoricum.net. It provides a central index for...

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Cultural Research Data Academy

The Cultural Research Data Academy (CRDA) is the central point of contact within NDFI4Culture for the coordination and organisation of trainings and educational activities.

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Culture Collaboration Cloud: Nextcloud

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Culture Data Search

The NFDI4Culture Data Search provides a central access point to the multimodal datasets from NFDI4Culture’s research domains, enabling the exploration of diverse cultural heritage data in one place.

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Curated list for your Community Data Portals

art journals – Illustrated art and satire periodicals

Art Monuments in East Central Europe – International collaborative portal

bavarikon

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Fotothek

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Rare book digitization

Böhler re:search

CbDD – Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany

CENOBIUM

Collections from Colonial Contexts

Color Slide Archive of Wall and Ceiling Painting

CORPUS VITREARUM – Digital image archive

Cultural Heritage Cologne

Data portal of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Dataportal of the German Digital Library

DEHIO digital Deutschland

Deutsche Inschriften Online

Digital Collection - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien

Digital DEHIO East Central Europe

Digital image archive – Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology

Digital Photothek – Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

Digital Portrait Index

duerer.online

Galerie Heinemann online

GDK Research – research platform for images of the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 in Munich

German Sales

Germanisches Nationalmuseum – German panel painting of the late Middle Ages

Germanisches Nationalmuseum – Object catalogue

Graphikportal

Image Catalog – Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe

Infrastructure for Documentation of Virtual Reconstructions (IDOVIR)

Kulthura

Media archive – Franconian panel paintings before Dürer

MIMO - Musical Instrument Museums Online

Museen im Saarland

Museen Nord

museum-digital – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

museum-digital:global

RIdIM Database on Music and Dance in Art

Sachsen.digital

Saxon Database of Fine Art Works

Schede Noack: Notes about Artists in Rome

SLUB Media Library

The Albrecht Haupt Collection

Curated list for your Community Repositories

ART-Dok

arthistoricum.net – ART-Books

arthistoricum.net – eJournals

arthistoricum.net @ heiDATA

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur

DARIAH-DE Repository

Deutsche Fotothek

Graphikportal.lab

heiARCHIVE

heidICON – Heidelberger Objekt- und Multimediadatenbank

Kompakkt

prometheus - A distributed digital image archive for research and teaching

RADAR4Culture

SLUBArchiv.digital

TIB AV-Portal

TIB Preservation-as-a-Service

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Sabrina Ujkašević, M. A.

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