News Item | 27. September 2024

Research data in art history: 10 theses. Munich Memorandum 2024 - Support and co-sign now!

By Dr. Maria Effinger

We had big plans for our conference ‘Is this research data or can it go away? Research data and digital strategies in art history’ at the beginning of July at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) Munich! We - and there were up to 200 interested people on site and connected via Zoom - not only wanted to talk about art historical research data, discuss problems and solutions and discuss perspectives, but above all ‘develop a joint proposal for the way forward’. We are delighted that we were actually able to realise this together and have now published the results:

Forschungsdaten in der Kunstgeschichte: 10 Thesen.
Münchner Memorandum 2024
doi.org/10.11588/artdok.00009194

The memorandum formulates current requirements, positions and impulses for the further development of digital art historical research data and its infrastructure from the perspective of the discipline in Germany. The aim is to ensure that the research data produced and available in different areas is published in a structured and sustainable manner - where appropriate - so that it can be collated and analysed at any time. They make the research process comprehensible and at the same time form the basis for further research. Their provision in a harmonised system also opens up new research questions for the discipline of art history from an interdisciplinary perspective, enables new knowledge production and elevates research data to a central component of the cultural preservation system.

However, the formulation and publication of the memorandum are only the first steps on the way to a future-proof handling of art historical research data that is coordinated within the discipline. Further co-operative events on this topic will therefore follow, above all to deepen the subject-specific aspects.

For now, however, you have the opportunity to sign our memorandum on the website of the German Association for Art History (Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte e. V.), thereby declaring your solidarity with the content and objectives and helping to shape the future handling of art historical research data together.

Would you like to co-sign the memorandum?
Then please click here: 
https://kunstgeschichte.org/10-thesen-zu-forschungsdaten-in-der-kunstgeschichte/

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