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 2 Items

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.

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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.

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Overarching topics 4 Items

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Planning 3 Items

Iconclass

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Language(s): English

Iconclass is a comprehensive classification system for the indexing of representational content in pictorial collections that is used in museums, libraries and research projects worldwide. It is particularly suitable for indexing Western art.

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Getty Vocabularies: Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)

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Language(s): English

The Getty Research Institute offers several coordinated structured subject vocabularies for the arts and cultural studies. ULAN is a vocabulary of over 527,000 artists and arts-related individuals and entities (as of Nov. 2021).

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Getty Vocabularies: Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)

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Language(s): English

Das Getty Research Institute bietet mehrere aufeinander abgestimmte strukturierte Fachvokabulare für die Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften. Der AAT ist ein mehrsprachiger, hierarchisch strukturierter Thesaurus mit über 72.000 Allgemeinbegriffen (Nov. 2021). 

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