Culture Data Search
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Data Providers
An overview of data portals already integrated into the Culture Knowledge Graph, providing access to tangible and intangible assets across NFDI4Culture’s domains ranging from architecture, art history and musicology to theatre, dance, film and media studies.
APSearch
Records integrated: 6.271
The digital platform APSearch (Arab Phonogram Search) provides information about commercial and scholarly sound recordings of music and speech from different Arabic-speaking countries. APSearch does not host the recordings themselves but provides detailed, searchable metadata from various archives, libraries and private collections, and partially connects users directly to the original audio in its source repository or archive.Dating back to the late 19th century, the recordings preserve endangered or historically significant cultural heritage, including regional language varieties and musical traditions. The historical context of these recordings requires critical consideration, as many were created under problematic conditions because of power imbalances and hierarchical relationships within colonial institutional frameworks and/or still are housed in institutions in the so-called Global North. APSearch addresses the challenges and responsibilities involved by providing a multilingual web service that improves the discoverability of these important cultural resources.APSearch is a project of members of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities AGYA, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and various Arab and German cooperation partners.
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Fotothek
Records integrated: 345.594
The Photographic Collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana owns more than 1,300,000 photographic positives, negatives, transparencies, digital images and digital copies, most of which document Italian art from late antiquity to the present. In addition to the topography, architecture and art of Italy and in particular of the city of Rome, the artist and drawing sectors form further focal points of the collection.It is possible to search for depicted works or for depicted photographs.The website is available in German, English and Italian.
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
Records integrated: 383.877
Bildindex is a collaborative database in which around 80 cultural and scientific institutions – museums, heritage conservation offices, libraries, university and research institutes – jointly publish their image and data holdings on art and architecture. Accessing the contents of the portal and participating as a data-supplying institution is free of charge.
CbDD – Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany
Records integrated: 6.228
The Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany researches and publishes ceiling and wall painting from the period between about 1550 and 1800 in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. A collection of over 4000 preserved and reconstructable art monuments is comprehensively documented, analyzed and presented in the database for the first time.See the inventory of the corpus of baroque ceiling paintings in the Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur with more than 9000 records.
CORPUS VITREARUM – Digital image archive
Records integrated: 8.737
The digital image archive of the Corpus Vitrearum (CVMA) Germany provides both general and detailed images of Medieval and Early-Modern stained-glass.Approximately 8,000 objects have been digitized.
Data portal Detmolder Hoftheater 1825–1875
Records integrated: 1.694
The musical and archival sources kept in the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold on the history of the Detmold Court Theater are preserved in unusual breadth and abundance. The aim of the project Detmolder Hoftheater 1825–1875 was to describe the surviving musical sources (scores, voices and parts, libretti, role booklets) in detail on the one hand (incl. enclosed inserts as well as handwritten entries on persons and performances) and on the other hand to record the archival sources in full text or as registers.
Deutsche Inschriften Online
Records integrated: 31.197
The online portal Deutsche Inschriften Online (DIO) is one of the largest epigraphic platforms, offering numerous medieval and early modern inscription articles with illustrations. It is continuously updated with new finds and corrections, and some volumes include interactive media such as zoomable floor plans or virtual tours. All volumes are mapped geographically, and in addition to digitised print editions, there are also born-digital publications. Articles, introductions, and bibliographies have persistent identifiers and are citable. A full-text search and thematic bridges allow cross-regional research.The project’s goal is to digitise the entire Deutsche Inschriften series and make it accessible online, in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and the Digital Media & Computational Methods research unit at the University of Münster.
Digital Catalogue Raisonné – Gluck-Gesamtausgabe
Records integrated: 206
The digital, thematic-systematic Catalog of all works by Christoph Willibald Gluck (GluckWV-online) is part of the Gluck Complete Edition (GGA) and is based on the results of the edition work and the decades-long research of the project. In the sense of a \"work in progress\", the contents of the GluckWV-online will appear successively: The goal is the complete and systematic listing of all compositions by Gluck in all their versions, as well as the compilation of important data on the creation, premiere, first edition, reception of individual works with corresponding source evidence.
epidat ─ Research Platform for Jewish Epigraphy
Records integrated: 53.411
The database on Jewish gravestone epigraphy epidat serves the inventory, documentation, editing, and presentation of epigraphic sollections. Personal data, diplomatic transcriptions and translations of the inscriptions, as well as descriptions and image files of the gravestones are available online. Furthermore, the archive maintains additional data sets on gravestones built after the year 1955 that are not available online.Continuosly further developed, the beta version adds new research functionalities to the web-based version, as well as a bilingual menu and is optimized for use on mobile devices.
Ferdinand Gregorovius. Poetry and Science. Collected German and Italian Letters
Records integrated: 1.093
The digital edition Ferdinand Gregorovius. Poetry and Science. Collected German and Italian Letters by the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome (DHI Rom) offers a representative selection of the correspondence of the German historian and journalist Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821-1981). The collected German and Italian letters are offered as a critical digital-born edition in their original language with comprehensive commentary.Ferdinand Gregorovius lived in Rome for more than 20 years, where he wrote his main work, the \"Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter\", which in 1876 made him an honorary citizen of the city. In addition to his historiographical and literary oeuvre he has left several thousand letters in which he, a contemporary witness, sheds light on Italian and German history of science as well as on politics and culture of the 19th century. Whilst travelling Gregorovius corresponded in particular with learned writers and artists.Around 1090 letters have been edited in TEI-P5, mainly based on the DTA-Basisformat. There are lists of persons, works, places, literature, works, corporate names in cmif.xml format providing a systematic access to the data. The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) from 2017 to 2023. In addition, the project was supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation between 2018 and 2023.
Kompakkt
Records integrated: 575
Kompakkt provides the possibility to make images, videos, audio files and especially 3D models available, add annotations and to access them collaboratively in groups and collections. These media files can further be implemented in external websites. The service is free of charge.
musiconn.performance
Records integrated: 106.169
musiconn.performance contains more than 153,000 records of musical performances as well as the sources documenting them from contributing partners from concert halls, memory institutions, and research. As a result of constant data enrichment, the documented sound events now range from the 17th century to the present and increasingly include not only the German-speaking but also the international area. Thanks to continuous data standardisation, curation and search optimisation, the persons, entities, places and works associated with these musical events can be found sustainably and persistently.
Regesta Imperii
Records integrated: 12.876
The Regesta Imperii document the activities of the Roman-German kings and emperors from around 751 to 1519, as well as those of the popes of the early and high Middle Ages, as attested in charters and historiographical sources, in the form of German-language regesta. The results of the project are freely accessible through an extensive regesta database (RI Online), which provides access to approximately 145,000 regesta entries from more than 100 printed volumes. This database is complemented by additional working databases and the RI OPAC, offering the public a central digital point of access to the regesta of the Regesta Imperii.
RISM Online
Records integrated: 1.457.974
RISM Online, a service by RISM Digital, provides access to the musical sources of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales through extensive search and browse functions. Multiple entry points with extensive interfaces for researching sources, persons, and institutions provide users with the ability to quickly narrow down relevant results using several different approaches, including keyword searches, filters, and relationship information. An innovative incipit query interface provides fast and accurate notation searches, with coloured notes highlighting the parts of the incipit which match a query. Users can also narrow down on matching incipits by specifying a clef, key signature, or time signature as a filter, or by combining a notation search with a keyword search for composer or piece names.
Semantic Kompakkt
Records integrated: 174
Semantic Kompakkt is a free and open source toolchain for the viewing and annotation of 3D models, and other visual media within a linked open data (LOD) environment. Consisting of Wikibase (for metadata storage as LOD) and Kompakkt (for publishing and annotating 2D, 3D and AV media), Semantic Kompakkt offers a range of functionalities via user-friendly graphical interfaces and open APIs. It is developed by the Open Science Lab at TIB Hannover.Semantic Kompakkt
The Albrecht Haupt Collection
Records integrated: 6.936
The Collection Albrecht Haupt is dedicated to the comprehensive archive of architect and building historian Albrecht Haupt (1852–1932), one of the few remaining intact collections of its kind in Germany. The data portal provides access to Haupt's historical library, along with his extensive collection of European hand drawings, prints, and his personal travel sketches.