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 3 Items
21.08.2023
W3C Web Annotation Data Model
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Language(s):
English
An older, but still valid set standard to Web Annotations, which serves as a basis for various projects.
16.08.2023
FADGI – Guidelines for Embedding Metadata in Broadcast WAVE Files (2021)
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Language(s):
English
This document describes a common standard for descriptive metadata for embedding in broadcast WAVE files, one of the most commonly used container formats for storing audio files. It is accompanied by the BWF MetaEdit tool, which can be used to integrate the metadata.
16.08.2023
FADGI – Guidelines for Embedding Metadata in DPX Files (2019)
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Language(s):
English
This document defines guidelines for embedding descriptive metadata in the Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) format for film material, including the core fields defined by the SMPTE ST268 standard for data exchange.
Documenting 2 Items
21.08.2023
Data Curation Profile
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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
Metadata in Daily Research
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Language(s):
German
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.
Overarching topics 3 Items
17.02.2025
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.
17.02.2025
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.
14.08.2023
Shaping inventory-based research
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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.
Planning 7 Items
17.02.2025
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.
17.02.2025
What are Authority Data?
NFDI4Culture Video Guideline
Author(s):
Melanie Gruß, Desiree Mayer
Contributor(s):
Eva Bodenschatz
Version: 1.0.0
The tutorial basically explains what authority data are and how they can be used in relation to research data. In addition, the video describes the role of authority data for different entities and from different providers and explains their potential for the Semantic Web.
04.12.2024
LIDO Primer
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Language(s):
English
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.
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.