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 1 Items
17.04.2025
Normdatenservice musiconn
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The service is aimed at researchers as well as memory institutions who identify missing authority records of music in the Integrated Authority File (GND) as part of cataloging and research projects, but do not have access to edit the GND themselves.
Overarching topics 4 Items
12.03.2025
Culture Community Report 2021
NFDI4Culture Report
Author(s):
Aleksander Marčić, Alexander Stark, Alexandra Büttner, Anastasia Wawilow, Angela Kailus, Anne Ferger et al.
In our annual report, we provide information about developments, progress, and outcomes in the consortium and communities, about our task areas and the services and resources developed there, and about our cross-consortium collaboration in the NFDI.
12.03.2025
Culture Community Report 2022
NFDI4Culture Report
Author(s):
Patrick Primavesi, Oliver Vettermann, Melanie Gruß, Martin Albrecht-Hohmaier, Martin Jörg Schäfer, Martha Stellmacher et al.
In our annual report, we provide information about developments, progress, and outcomes in the consortium and communities, about our task areas and the services and resources developed there, and about our cross-consortium collaboration in the NFDI.
04.03.2025
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.
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.
Planning 1 Items
14.08.2023
Hornbostel-Sachs System
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The Hornbostel-Sachs system is a classification system for musical instruments. It has been the international standard since the 1970s. The system was updated and expanded in 2011 as part of the Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) project.
Rights & Ethics 3 Items
15.08.2023
The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
The CARE Principles were formulated to complement the FAIR Principles with an important research ethics aspect. The topic is explained in an introductory way and via the page one can obtain both a summary and a detailed presentation (each as a PDF).
15.08.2023
Dealing with collection items from colonial contexts (2021)
Link Recommendation
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 for Music
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
A useful compilation on copyright for music from sheet music to concert recordings. Spotlights are thrown on music on the internet, the reproduction of music and various scientific use cases – with details on the use of sheet music.
Data sharing & publishing 2 Items
13.06.2025
Culture Graph Interchange Format
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Oleksandra Bruns, Etienne Posthumus, Harald Sack, Linnaea Söhn, Torsten Schrade, Jonatan Jalle Steller et al.
Version: 1.3.0
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.
12.06.2025
Data integration into the Culture Knowledge Graph
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Alexandra Büttner, Oleksandra Bruns, Heike Fliegl, Etienne Posthumus, Harald Sack, Torsten Schrade et al.
Version: 1.1.0
Data providers in the NFDI4Culture communities are invited to integrate metadata on research data into the Culture Knowledge Graph. The guideline outlines integration options and offers basic guidance for understanding the Culture Knowledge Graph.