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 14 Items
17.02.2025
3D Objects – The Virtual Digital Heritage
NFDI4Culture Video Guideline
Author(s):
Zoe Schubert, Katja Sternitzke
Contributor(s):
Eva Bodenschatz
Version: 1.0.0
This video tutorial explains what a 3D object is and how it is created, what to consider during the production, why 3D objects are useful for science, and how they help explore and preserve cultural heritage.
27.10.2023
Ground Truth Guidelines für OCR-D (Optical Character Recognition Development)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English,
German
The Ground Truth Guidelines have grown out of the DFG-funded initiative for Optical Character Recognition Development. They address the creation of ground truth, i. e. reference data for the development and evaluation of OCR systems.
21.08.2023
Metamorfoze Preservation Imaging Guidelines (2012)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
Specifications for the digitization of two-dimensional materials such as manuscripts, books, newspapers, and magazines, but also photographs, paintings, and graphic sheets. They are technically oriented and refer exclusively to the image quality and metadata of the primary file.
21.08.2023
Newspaper Digitization Master Plan - Recommendations for the Digitization of Historical Newspapers in Germany
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The "Masterplan Zeitungsdigitalisierung" summarizes the experiences and results of the DFG project "Digitalisierung historischer Zeitungen" and includes a summary of the most important recommendations.
21.08.2023
OCR – Best-practice-guide
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
The European Impact Centre of Competence in Digitisation has published this best practice guide to OCR. The guide provides an introduction to OCR and is more technical in nature, a bit older, but thorough.
21.08.2023
Pure 3D Technical Report
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
This technical report of the Dutch Pure3D project of 2021 provides a comparably up-to-date state of the art compilation of available scientific 3D web infrastructures. The survey is complemented by user requirements, guidelines and recommendations.
Documenting 1 Items
21.08.2023
Museums and 3D Printing
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
This resource illustrates how 3D printing works and is used in museums through a series of practical examples. It is especially recommended because of the appendices, which complete the use cases with a valuable compilation of information about 3D printing, including a glossary,…
Planning 2 Items
25.03.2025
Archiving Social Media Data: A guide for archivists and researchers (2021)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
Published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), this guide provides a compact introduction to data-driven social media research, particularly useful for planning and beginners.
15.08.2023
Wikidata
Link Recommendation
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.
Rights & Ethics 1 Items
06.11.2025
Legal assessment of 3D digitisation at Cultural Heritage Institutions
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Katja Sternitzke, Grischka Petri
Version: 1.0.1
The decision tree supports cultural heritage institutions in clarifying rights for 3D digitization and the publication of 3D data from their collections. Created by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as part of NFDI4Culture.