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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Planning 1 Items
17.02.2025
Guideline for the sustainable development and use of research software
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Daniel Jettka, Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Aleksander Marčić, Anne Ferger
Version: 1.1.0
How can software be developed, offered and used in such a way that it itself and the research results produced with it remain sustainably available in the sense of the FAIR criteria and can be re-used as far as possible?
Rights & Ethics 9 Items
17.02.2025
Upload scientific video contributions
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Oliver Vettermann, Grischka Petri
Version: 1.0.0
This document aims to explain the legal framework for video uploads to publicly accessible video portals covering video recordings with scientific content. For the detailed data protection section, you will find a flowchart on data protection for video uploads here for your…
10.02.2025
The Legal Primer for Digitisation Projects in Cultural Heritage Institutions
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
For all those who work digitally with cultural heritage and who would like to make an initial assessment of the legal issues. The 2021 amendment to German copyright law is reflected, which includes new legal permissions, particularly for the online presentation of historical…
16.01.2025
Open Source Initiative – Approved Licenses
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
English
This page provides an overview of and links to existing licences for open source software.
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.
15.08.2023
Copyright – Which Creative Commons license is right for me?
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The website, which specializes in continuing education, offers an interactive questionnaire here that guides one toward the appropriate Creative Commons license for one's project.
15.08.2023
Copyright – Rights Statements
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
If protected material is to be put online, there are modules on the Rights Statements page for corresponding information. This expresses, for example, that licences have been obtained, but that subsequent use is not possible without further ado.
Data sharing & publishing 2 Items
17.02.2025
RADAR – Guideline on Personal Data
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Kerstin Soltau
Version: 1.0.1
This guideline is intended to help you understand what information falls under the term “personenbezogene Daten” and which of these can be published on RADAR4Culture.
14.08.2023
From project proposal to data publication
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
This task sheet for beginners contains eight key tasks on research data management, from data capture to publication: Data Management Plan, Data Structuring and Naming, Data Selection, File Formats, Metadata/README File, Legal Aspects, License Selection, Repository Selection.