NFDI4Culture Metadata API
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The NFDI4Culture portal offers all content as Linked Open Data over this RESTful API. The API implements the Hydra-Specification of the W3C Hydra Community Group. The semantic description of this API can be retrieved by clients via the Hydra documentation file (JSON). Each metadata record offered via this API can also be retrieved in one of following machine-readable LOD serializations. The API is the basis for the Culture Research Information Graph, which together with the Culture Research Data Graph forms the Culture Knowledge Graph (for more details see this presentation).
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New publication: Legal decision-making aid for the digitization of accession books and inventory lists
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- New publication: Legal decision-making aid for the digitization of accession books and inventory lists
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- 2025-08-27
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Accession books and inventory lists are key sources for researching the provenance of artworks – however, their digitization and publication raise complex legal questions. Data protection, personal rights, and copyright law set limits that must be observed when publishing online.
As part of NFDI4Culture and in collaboration with Heidelberg University Library, an interdisciplinary ad hoc working group, supported by the Legal Helpdesk, has developed a practical guide to risk assessment. This is also based on the experiences of the cooperation partners of the Heidelberg Accession Index (HAI), a digital portal with historical acquisition books provided by Heidelberg University Library.
The publication consists of two parts:
- A decision tree for initial legal guidance and quick assessment of potential risks
- A detailed legal opinion that systematically examines key issues such as data protection for acquisition data, personal rights, and copyright protection periods
The authors are Oliver Vettermann (personal rights and data protection law) and Grischka Petri (copyright law). The report combines legal expertise with art-historical relevance and addresses typical areas of conflict, such as when personal data, property details, or sensitive historical contexts (e.g., the Nazi era) appear in the sources.
Both publications are available open access at arthistoricum.net - ART-Dok:
Decision tree
Oliver Vettermann / Grischka Petri: Handreichung zur Risikobewertung bei der Open-Access-Veröffentlichung digitalisierter Zugangsbücher und Bestandsverzeichnisse (Entscheidungsbaum), Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2025
DOI: 10.11588/artdok.00009725Expert opinion
Oliver Vettermann / Grischka Petri: Handreichung zur Risikobewertung bei der Open-Access-Veröffentlichung digitalisierter Zugangsbücher und Bestandsverzeichnisse (Gutachten), Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2025
DOI: 10.11588/artdok.00009726
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- Art History
- Law
- Ethical & Legal Aspects
- Publication & Preservation
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- Cultural Heritage
- Ethics
- Personality Rights
- Provenance
- Provenance Research
- Right of Use
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- Grischka Petri
- Oliver Vettermann
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- FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur
- arthistoricum.net – Fachinformationsdienst Kunst, Fotografie, Design
- Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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- Lena Kunkel
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- Handreichung zur Risikobewertung bei der Open-Access-Veröffentlichung digitalisierter Zugangsbücher und Bestandsverzeichnisse (Gutachten)
- Handreichung zur Risikobewertung bei der Open-Access-Veröffentlichung digitalisierter Zugangsbücher und Bestandsverzeichnisse (Entscheidungsbaum)