Recommendation | 18. December 2025

Recommendation for FAIR vocabularies in museums and collections published

By Dr. Celia Krause

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Digital Humanities Linked Data & Semantics Standards & Curation Collection Museum Recommendation Authority Data
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The recommendation for FAIR vocabularies and authority data for cultural heritage (GLAM) institutions and collections is now in German language available online:

Frech, A., Gerber, A., Gnyp, A., Götsch, S., von Hagel, F., Kailus, A., Reichert, R., Schäfer, D., & Schlösser, M. (2025). FAIRe Vokabulare und Normdaten für Museen und Sammlungen (v. 1.0), available on Zenodo.

The text refers directly to the FAIR principle for interoperability I2: '(Meta)data use vocabularies that follow the FAIR principles', and provides an essential starting point for implementation. The most relevant vocabularies for the documentation of cultural heritage objects are presented. Each entry includes an extensive description of the vocabulary, its technical implementation status and a rating according to the degree of FAIRness based on a traffic light system.

This recommendation was a collaborative effort that was also developed within the framework of NFDI4Culture.