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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Documenting 2 Items
21.08.2023
Data Curation Profile
Link Recommendation
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.
21.08.2023
Data Documentation
Link Recommendation
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.
Organizing 4 Items
21.08.2023
Tools for Data Organisation
Link Recommendation
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.
21.08.2023
Research data policies for research projects: a structured guide
Link Recommendation
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.
21.08.2023
Data Organisation
Link Recommendation
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.
21.08.2023
Data Life Cycle
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The article provides an overview of the data lifecycle and its individual stages.
Overarching topics 4 Items
15.08.2023
Research Data in Cultural Studies – an introduction
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Martin Albrecht-Hohmaier, Katharina Bergmann, Christoph Eggersglüß, Andrea Polywka, Alexander Stark
Version: 1.0.1
A basic introduction to research data management in the arts, cultural studies and humanities, with explanations for the most important concepts, standards and tools.
14.08.2023
Shaping inventory-based research
Link Recommendation
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.
20.07.2023
What is NFDI4Culture?
NFDI4Culture Video Guideline
Author(s):
Sarah Pittroff
Version: 1.0.0
What is NFDI4Culture? The animated film answers questions about the activities of the consortium and about new solutions in research data management – what they are needed for and who they are good for.
20.07.2023
Guideline for a FAIR Cultural Studies Research Data Management
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Angela Kailus
Version: 1.0.1
In order to be optimally re-usable, research data should be processed according to the FAIR principles. This guideline explains what these principles mean and how they can be implemented in cultural studies and heritage collections.
Planning 5 Items
15.08.2023
The challenge of data quality – recommendations for the future viability of research in the digital transformation (2019)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German,
English
The position paper of the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII) deals with quality assurance and enhancement in the documentation of research data and is a comprehensive and motivating analysis on the topic of quality assurance in the science system.
14.08.2023
GO FAIR
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Language(s):
English
GO FAIR is a bottom-up initiative aiming to implement the FAIR data principles and make data discoverable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). It provides an implementation network active in the areas of GO CHANGE, GO TRAIN, GO BUILD.
14.08.2023
FAIR Data Principles for Research Data (2017)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English,
German
The page explains the FAIR principles quickly and clearly. On the one hand, it describes the tasks involved in creating FAIR research data, and on the other hand, it presents the requirements for repositories to offer FAIR data.
14.08.2023
FAIR Data Maturity Model (2020)
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Language(s):
English,
German
To counteract ambiguities in the interpretation of FAIR principles, the Research Data Alliance has developed core assessment criteria for FAIRness of data and formulated a set of indicators, including a checklist, as a starting point for reviewing your own data.
14.08.2023
Data Management Plan
Link Recommendation
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 2 Items
15.08.2023
Dealing with collection items from colonial contexts (2021)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The guideline of the German Museums Association on dealing with collections from colonial contexts provides information and working aids for collections in researching, documenting and presenting objects and in cooperating with societies of origin.
15.08.2023
Data protection law – BERD@NFDI: Assistant for checking the scope of application under data protection law
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
The tool allows researchers to independently determine whether and how they process personal data. In this way, the responsibility remains with the researchers and the assessment takes into account all the details of the research activity.
Data sharing & publishing 3 Items
14.08.2023
Repositories for Research Data
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
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.
14.08.2023
Repositories - differentiated search for repositories
Link Recommendation
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).
14.08.2023
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.