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.
Type:
Digitizing, Inventorizing, Enriching 2 Items
13.06.2023
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
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Language(s):
English
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.
13.06.2023
Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
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Language(s):
English
CCO is a handbook of guidelines for documenting cultural heritage objects and the visual resources they represent. The focus is on art and architecture, but many other types of culturally relevant objects are also considered.
Overarching topics 1 Items
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.
Planning 4 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.
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.
Rights & Ethics 4 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.
15.08.2023
Copyright – Rights Statements
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Language(s):
German
If protected material is to be put online, there are modules on the Rights Statements page for corresponding information. This expresses, for example, that licences have been obtained, but that subsequent use is not possible without further ado.
15.08.2023
Copyright – Guide to image rights in art historical practice
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Language(s):
German
The Association of German Art Historians has posted a guide to image rights in art historical practice that explains various usage scenarios and the related legal situation. It has been published in an updated edition in 2022, which brings the guide up to date after the copyright…