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 3 Items
21.08.2023
Spectrum – the UK Collection Management Standard
Link Recommendation
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)
Link Recommendation
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
DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation (2022)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
German
The DFG Practical Guidelines formulate standards and provide guidance on organisational, methodological and technical issues in the context of object digitisation and indexing. This document is an updated version of the Practical Guidelines published by the DFG in 2016.
Organizing 1 Items
21.08.2023
Research data policies for research projects: a structured guide
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
A research data policy for research projects creates transparency in the handling of research data and requires planning, documentation and description. The contents of the guide will be transferred to an online generator as the project progresses.
Overarching topics 2 Items
14.08.2023
Shaping inventory-based research
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
In its discussion impulse on the scientific, scholarly and cultural use of collections, the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII) addressed the (future) role of collecting institutions in the digital transformation of science with regard to the framework conditions.
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 5 Items
27.12.2023
LIDO Training
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Barbara Fichtl
Version: 1.0.1
LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) is a metadata schema for the presentation and publication of data on cultural heritage objects. This training provides the basics for understanding and using LIDO.
31.08.2023
Catalog of Quality Problems in Data, Data Models and Data Transformations (2020)
Link Recommendation
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
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.
15.08.2023
The Integrated Authority File - Standards Data for Culture and Research
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The film provides information about the GND as a data collection of authority data from the cultural sciences and as an organizational structure for institutions involved in shaping the GND. It addresses the integration of the GND in international contexts.
14.08.2023
FAIR-Aware: Assess Your Knowledge of FAIR (2021)
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
FAIR-Aware is an online tool that helps researchers and data managers assess how much they know about the requirements for the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability (FAIR) of datasets.
Data sharing & publishing 1 Items
14.08.2023
Checklist for appropriate handling of research data
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
This DFG questionnaire helps researchers to plan and describe the handling of research data in their project beyond the context of an application.