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 13 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.
21.08.2023
Guide to the standardization of provenance information (2018)
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Language(s):
German
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.
21.08.2023
Spectrum – the UK Collection Management Standard
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Language(s):
English
German
The Spectrum documentation standard of the British Collections Trust has set guidelines for the comprehensive documentation of museum objects and all related work processes that are considered exemplary and are applied worldwide.
21.08.2023
Spectrum – Digital Asset Management (2013)
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Language(s):
English
This document proposes a methodology for integrating the management of digital collections into the existing curatorial and administrative functions of the institution. It is intended as a companion document to the UK Collections Trust's Spectrum documentation standard.
16.08.2023
FADGI – Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials (2022)
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Language(s):
English
This document presents professional methods for creating the most faithful digital reproductions possible of physical two-dimensional collection items such as texts, plans, maps, graphics, or photographs.Iit also focuses on documenting image-related information in metadata.
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.
Documenting 3 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
Data Documentation
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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.
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.
Organizing 2 Items
21.08.2023
Introduction to data formats
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Language(s):
German
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.
21.08.2023
Data Life Cycle
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Language(s):
German
The article provides an overview of the data lifecycle and its individual stages.
Overarching topics 2 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.
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 7 Items
07.12.2023
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.
31.08.2023
Catalog of Quality Problems in Data, Data Models and Data Transformations (2020)
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Language(s):
English
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.
15.08.2023
Wikidata
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Language(s):
English
Wikidata is a rapidly growing database on all knowledge domains that has been in existence since 2012 and can be edited by anyone interested or supplemented by automated enrichment. Wikidata represents one of the most important data hubs of the Linked (Open) Data network.
15.08.2023
Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
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Language(s):
English
VIAF is an aggregated standards data service with holdings from 57 national libraries and similar providers (as of Aug. 2022). VIAF establishes concordances to an entity via the standards records available for it and offers a URI to this cluster.
14.08.2023
Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND)
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Language(s):
German
The Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) offers the largest openly licensed pool of German-language authority data on individual terms, such as persons, corporate bodies, events, geographies and artistic works, but also on general terms in the form of subject headings.
14.08.2023
FAIR Data Principles for Research Data (2017)
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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.
Data sharing & publishing 1 Items
18.02.2024
Culture Graph Interchange Format
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Oleksandra Bruns, Etienne Posthumus, Harald Sack, Linnaea Söhn, Torsten Schrade, Jonatan Jalle Steller et al.
Version: 1.2.1
The Culture Graph Interchange Format is a lightweight data exchange format based on schema.org. It serves to integrate datasets from the domains of NFDI4Culture into the Culture Knowledge Graph and can enhance their discoverability on the World Wide Web.