The NFDI4Culture Knowledge Base contains guidelines, reports, and specifications by the task areas of the consortium covering all aspects of research data management in the domain of material and immaterial cultural heritage. Additionally, we provide you with curated link recommendations to high quality open educational resources.
Digitizing, Inventorizing, Enriching 23 Items
10.03.2023
Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
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Language(s):
English
CCO is a handbook of guidelines for documenting cultural heritage objects and the visual resources they represent. The focus is on art and architecture, but many other types of culturally relevant objects are also considered.
10.03.2023
A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition
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Language(s):
English
The 2018 publication contains inspiration for advancing the field of OCR for scientific research, handling historical texts as well as manuscripts, and key recommendations on OCR.
10.03.2023
3D Formats for Classical Studies
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Language(s):
German
The IANUS Research Data Center for Archaeology and Classical Studies, coordinated by the German Archaeological Institute, has compiled IT recommendations for the sustainable handling of digital data, including recommended formats for 3D data.
10.03.2023
3D Digitization of Cultural Heritage of the European Commission
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Language(s):
English
This 2020 European Commission report identifies ten basic questions and principles that researchers should ask themselves before deciding to go 3D digitizing.
27.02.2023
DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation (2022)
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Language(s):
English
German
The DFG Practical Guidelines formulate standards and provide guidance on organisational, methodological and technical issues in the context of object digitisation and indexing. This document is an updated version of the Practical Guidelines published by the DFG in 2016.
30.12.2022
W3C Web Annotation Data Model
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Language(s):
English
An older, but still valid set standard to Web Annotations, which serves as a basis for various projects.
Documenting 6 Items
30.12.2022
Data Curation Profiles Toolkit – User Guide
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Language(s):
English
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.
30.12.2022
Data Curation Profile
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Language(s):
German
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.
30.12.2022
Data Documentation
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Language(s):
German
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.
30.12.2022
Metadata in Daily Research
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Language(s):
German
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.
30.12.2022
Preparing Process Data
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Language(s):
German
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.
30.12.2022
Transcription of Data
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Language(s):
German
The page highlights the aspect of transcription (as writing down what is spoken and observed) of qualitative research data and offers, among other things, further links for audio and video transcription as well as literature recommendations on the topic.
Organizing 5 Items
08.03.2023
Research data policies for research projects: a structured guide
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Language(s):
German
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.
30.12.2022
Introduction to data formats
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Language(s):
German
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.
30.12.2022
Data Life Cycle
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Language(s):
German
The article provides an overview of the data lifecycle and its individual stages.
30.12.2022
Data Organisation
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Language(s):
German
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.
30.12.2022
Tools for Data Organisation
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Language(s):
German
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.
Overarching topics 2 Items
19.01.2023
DFG-Code of Conduct "Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice" (2019)
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Language(s):
German
The DFG Code of Conduct represents the consensus of the DFG's member organizations on the fundamental principles and standards of good practice, underscoring the importance of integrity in everyday research.
30.12.2022
Shaping inventory-based research
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Language(s):
German
In its discussion impulse on the scientific, scholarly and cultural use of collections, the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII) addressed the (future) role of collecting institutions in the digital transformation of science with regard to the framework conditions.
Planning 28 Items
15.02.2023
Research Funding – Online Manual
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Language(s):
English
This page of the European Commission gives a very detailed overview of the possibilities and the related formalities to finance a project.
30.12.2022
Catalog of Quality Problems in Data, Data Models and Data Transformations (2020)
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Language(s):
English
The publication identifies concrete data problems in research data on tangible cultural assets. Each problem is described by a structured profile that includes aspects such as the quality dimensions involved, examples, causes and ideas for improvement.
30.12.2022
CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model – Primer (2014)
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Language(s):
English
CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model is the reference ontology for cultural heritage information integration (ISO Standard 21127:2014). The primer is an introduction to the fundamentals and basic modelling of CRM and provides a guided introduction.
30.12.2022
Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts (2012)
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Language(s):
English
This little data management horror story illustrates fundamental problems in the subsequent use of data that arise due to poor standardisation, documentation and archiving, suitable for initial sensitisation to the topic of research data management.
30.12.2022
Data Life Cycle
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Language(s):
German
The description of the data life cycle on forschungsdaten.info is very compact, but as an introduction it explains aptly what the data life cycle is all about.
30.12.2022
Data Management Plan
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Language(s):
German
The article offers a good first introduction to the topic of DMP and contains numerous useful, further links for the user (including the specifications of the funding institutions, DMP tools, etc.).
Rights & Ethics 23 Items
27.02.2023
The Legal Primer for Digitisation Projects in Cultural Heritage Institutions
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Language(s):
German
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…
27.02.2023
Guidelines for Video Uploads on Video Platforms
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Language(s):
German
This decision tree provides an overview on the data protection aspects of uploading conference videos to popular video platforms as well as the processing of relevant data.
27.02.2023
Data Protection Compliant Internal Sharing of Research Datasets
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Language(s):
German
This decision tree provides guidance on the steps to consider before transferring within or between research institutions beyond the research purpose itself.
02.02.2023
Copyright – Guide to image rights in art historical practice
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Language(s):
German
The Association of German Art Historians has posted a guide to image rights in art historical practice that explains various usage scenarios and the related legal situation. It has been published in an updated edition in 2022, which brings the guide up to date after the copyright…
30.12.2022
The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
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Language(s):
English
The CARE Principles were formulated to complement the FAIR Principles with an important research ethics aspect. The topic is explained in an introductory way and via the page one can obtain both a summary and a detailed presentation (each as a PDF).
30.12.2022
CARE – Traditional Knowledge Label
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Language(s):
English
The initiative, founded in 2010, has developed labels that document standards for the consideration of indigenous interests in FDM: the Traditional Knowledge Label (relevance of indigenous forms of knowledge) and the Biocultural Label (expectations of biocultural data…
Data sharing & publishing 8 Items
30.12.2022
Checklist for appropriate handling of research data
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Language(s):
English
This DFG questionnaire helps researchers to plan and describe the handling of research data in their project beyond the context of an application.
30.12.2022
Repositories - differentiated search for repositories
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Language(s):
English
re3data is a service for searching research data repositories worldwide. It is possible to search specifically by content categorization (e.g. subject areas).
30.12.2022
Repositories - Introduction to selection
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Language(s):
German
Forschungsdaten.info is the German-language information portal on research data management (FDM). On the topic of "repositories" there is a general introduction, including the topics: Choosing a repository and certification.
30.12.2022
Repositories - international recommendations
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Language(s):
English
DDRS is a service for locating appropriate research data repositories worldwide.
30.12.2022
Repositories - Open Access
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Language(s):
German
open-access.network offers an introduction to open access repositories and also provides an overview of open access repositories via OPENdoar.
30.12.2022
Repositories – RIsources der DFG
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Language(s):
German
With RIsources (RI = Research Infrastructure), the German Research Foundation (DFG) offers an information portal on scientific research infrastructures. RIsources provides an overview of research data repositories in Germany.