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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Rights & Ethics 13 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.
12.06.2025
Upload of scientific video contributions
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Oliver Vettermann, Grischka Petri
Version: 1.1.0
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…
18.02.2025
Audiovisual Materials in Research and Teaching – an Overview of Copyright Aspects
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Fabian Rack, Paul Klimpel
Version: 1.0.2
The legal opinion (new edition of the 2015 version) explains how audiovisual materials may be used in research and teaching. It explains in which cases researchers must obtain permission and in which use is permitted by law.
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
Legal aspects of research data management
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
The chapter written by Anne Lauber-Rönsberg in the Practical Handbook on Research Data Management (2021) summarizes the legal framework of FDM. The focus is on copyright law, the regulations of good scientific practice, service and labor law, and data protection law.
Data sharing & publishing 1 Items
14.08.2023
Repositories - Open Access
Link Recommendation
Language(s):
German
open-access.network offers an introduction to open access repositories and also provides an overview of open access repositories via OPENdoar.