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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Digitizing, Inventorizing, Enriching 1 Items
21.08.2023
Guide for digital collection management at art museums (2021)
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Language(s):
German
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.
Planning 3 Items
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.
Rights & Ethics 2 Items
15.08.2023
Handling of human remains in museums and collections (2021)
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Language(s):
German
This 2021 guide from the German Museums Association provides important guidance for collections dealing with issues related to the management, presentation, and restitution of human remains.
15.08.2023
Dealing with collection items from colonial contexts (2021)
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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.