Culture Knowledge Base
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.
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Planning 9 Items
17.05.2024
Webinar "Einführung in Iconclass"
NFDI4Culture Video Guideline
Author(s):
Angela Kailus
Contributor(s):
Martin Albrecht-Hohmaier,
Frodo Podschwadek
Version: 1.0.0
This webinar introduces Iconclass, a classification system for the subject indexing of works of art and other cultural objects. It shows how to work with it during indexing and explains how using Iconclass can enhance the interoperability of data. Find presentation slides here.
15.08.2023
Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO)
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Language(s):
English
LIDO is an XML schema for providing metadata on objects of material culture for various post-use contexts, from online publication to output via interfaces. It supports the full range of descriptive information on cultural property.
15.08.2023
LIDO manual for the collection and publication of metadata on cultural objects: Graphics (2019)
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Language(s):
German
The handbook provides graphic collections with guidance for the acquisition of data and its integration into cross-collection contexts. It looks at the perspective of scientific description of the goods and that of the informational organisation of the data.
15.08.2023
LIDO Manual for the Acquisition and Publication of Metadata on Cultural Objects: Painting and Sculpture (2022)
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Language(s):
German
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.
15.08.2023
International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL)
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Language(s):
German
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.
15.08.2023
Iconclass
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Language(s):
English
Iconclass is a comprehensive classification system for the indexing of representational content in pictorial collections that is used in museums, libraries and research projects worldwide. It is particularly suitable for indexing Western art.
14.08.2023
Getty Vocabularies: Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
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Language(s):
English
The Getty Research Institute offers several coordinated structured subject vocabularies for the arts and cultural studies. ULAN is a vocabulary of over 527,000 artists and arts-related individuals and entities (as of Nov. 2021).
14.08.2023
Getty Vocabularies: Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
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Language(s):
English
The Getty Research Institute offers several coordinated structured subject vocabularies for the arts and cultural studies. The TGN lists georeferenced entries for 2.5 million geographies worldwide with a focus on historical places (as of Nov. 2021).
14.08.2023
Getty Vocabularies: Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
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Language(s):
English
Das Getty Research Institute bietet mehrere aufeinander abgestimmte strukturierte Fachvokabulare für die Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften. Der AAT ist ein mehrsprachiger, hierarchisch strukturierter Thesaurus mit über 72.000 Allgemeinbegriffen (Nov. 2021).