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.

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.

An introduction to digitization for cultural heritage collections. It focuses on digital collection management and explains all the steps involved in the computer-assisted documentation of a collection and the subsequent networking of the data in comprehensive portals.

Recommendations for standardized and systematized documentation of results in provenance research, compiled by the Provenance Research Working Group and receiving a great deal of attention.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.