Culture Knowledge Base

This guide is intended for those working in museums who wish to undertake an initial check for unlawful contexts in the provenance of objects in their collections. It will help them to plan and carry out their work, as well as providing an introduction to this area of research.

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.

This still growing collection of guidelines and interviews already (2024) covers in the field of Digital Behavioral Data topics such as collection, processing, analysis, management and ethics.

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.

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.

The LIDO Handbook is dedicated to objects of the genres painting and sculpture and is an application profile of the internationally established metadata standard LIDO, which serves as a guide for structuring information in local collection management systems.

The handbook provides graphic collections with guidance on cataloguing their objects and integrating data into cross-collection contexts. It considers both the scholarly description of the objects and the informational organisation of the data.

This handbook is an application profile of the metadata standard LIDO, providing guidance on how to create coherently structured object descriptions for architectural and other immovable objects, and how to adhere to standards for best results (sharing and linking on the Web).

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.

ISIL records identifiers for libraries, archives, museums and related institutions within the globally applied ISIL identification system. The German ISIL agency is the Berlin State Library. The data are provided with addresses and georeferenced.

The LIDO Primer provides a sound introduction to the metadata schema LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) and contains illustrative XML examples for describing objects with LIDO.

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.

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).

The Council for Social and Economic Data's 2017 handout is "a first step towards a discipline-wide and interdisciplinary understanding of research ethics principles and review procedures in the German-language social and economic sciences."

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.

The 2017 paper by Cordula Franzke ("Repositories for research data using the example of the Digital Humanities in national and international comparison") deals with the basic quality criteria for repositories.

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.

open-access.network offers an introduction to open access repositories and also provides an overview of open access repositories via OPENdoar.

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.