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The service is aimed at researchers as well as memory institutions who identify missing authority records of music in the Integrated Authority File (GND) as part of cataloging and research projects, but do not have access to edit the GND themselves.

The service is aimed at researchers as well as memory institutions who identify missing authority records of the Performing Arts in the Integrated Authority File (GND) as part of cataloging and research projects, but do not have access to edit the GND themselves.

The service is aimed at researchers as well as memory institutions who identify missing authority records of the arts in the Integrated Authority File (GND) as part of cataloging and research projects, but do not have access to edit the GND themselves.

CDWA provides easy-to-understand and clear guidelines for structuring information when cataloging art and other cultural heritage objects in collections. It is supplemented by many examples.

The Ground Truth Guidelines have grown out of the DFG-funded initiative for Optical Character Recognition Development. They address the creation of ground truth, i. e. reference data for the development and evaluation of OCR systems.

The publication by Jake Carlson provides instructions on how to use the so-called "toolkit" for documenting research data, as well as templates and examples compiled for free use by Purdue University in the US.

The publication by Jake Carlson provides instructions on how to use the so-called "toolkit" for documenting research data, as well as templates and examples compiled for free use by Purdue University in the US.

The site provides detailed information on why, how and which research data should be documented in accordance with the FAIR criteria, with regard to formats, vocabularies, languages, protocols, repositories, persistent identifications.

The site explains the benefits of documenting metadata early in the research process, provides a good overview of the steps involved, and references best practices from everyday research.

This resource illustrates how 3D printing works and is used in museums through a series of practical examples. It is especially recommended because of the appendices, which complete the use cases with a valuable compilation of information about 3D printing, including a glossary,…

The publication concisely explains the concept of process data as an important part of sustainable documentation in the humanities context and presents three schemas for process metadata.

The overview compilation of forschungsdaten.info offers a first insight around tools for data organization of scientific data. It refers to various tools and software as well as their documentation.

A research data policy for research projects creates transparency in the handling of research data and requires planning, documentation and description. The contents of the guide will be transferred to an online generator as the project progresses.

This resource provides an introduction such as an overview of long-term and sustainable data formats and covers file formats, conversion, compatibility, long-term stability, metadata, and machine readability.

The topic of data organization is addressed here in an overview and some measures for good data organization are presented, as well as references to other, related topics.

The article provides an overview of the data lifecycle and its individual stages.

Published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), this guide provides a compact introduction to data-driven social media research, particularly useful for planning and beginners.

For all those who work digitally with cultural heritage and who would like to make an initial assessment of the legal issues. The 2021 amendment to German copyright law is reflected, which includes new legal permissions, particularly for the online presentation of historical…

The Association of Internet Research (AoIR) provides internationally renowned guidelines (version 3.0) to the ethical challenges of Internet research. The Companion Resources (6.) contain further topics for in-depth study.

This page provides an overview of and links to existing licences for open source software.

"SOCRATES: Social Media Research Assessment Template for Ethical Scholarship" is a introduction to the ethical, security and legal issues of data-driven social media research.

This DFG questionnaire helps researchers to plan and describe the handling of research data in their project beyond the context of an application.

The publication summarizes results from the survey on Enhanced Publications. It presents representative examples and underlines that there are a variety of publication contexts that go beyond standard research publications or digital collections.