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 8 Items
21.08.2023
OCR – Best-practice-guide
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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
Provenance Research Guide (2019)
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Language(s):
German
The guide focuses on the identification of cultural property that was seized as a result of persecution during the National Socialist regime. It provides practice-oriented information on the goals, scientific methods and issues of provenance research.
21.08.2023
Spectrum – the UK Collection Management Standard
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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)
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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
FADGI – Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials (2022)
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Language(s):
English
This document presents professional methods for creating the most faithful digital reproductions possible of physical two-dimensional collection items such as texts, plans, maps, graphics, or photographs.Iit also focuses on documenting image-related information in metadata.
16.08.2023
DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation (2022)
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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.
Documenting 2 Items
21.08.2023
Metadata in Daily Research
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Language(s):
German
The site explains the benefits of documenting metadata early in the research process, provides a good overview of the steps involved, and references best practices from everyday research.
21.08.2023
Museums and 3D Printing
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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,…
Organizing 1 Items
21.08.2023
Data Organisation
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Language(s):
German
The topic of data organization is addressed here in an overview and some measures for good data organization are presented, as well as references to other, related topics.
Overarching topics 5 Items
28.01.2025
GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data (DBD) (2024)
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Language(s):
English
This still growing collection of guidelines and interviews already (2024) covers in the field of Digital Behavioral Data topics such as collection, processing, analysis, management and ethics.
14.01.2025
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.
14.08.2023
Shaping inventory-based research
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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.
14.08.2023
DFG-Code of Conduct "Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice" (2019)
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Language(s):
German
The DFG Code of Conduct represents the consensus of the DFG's member organizations on the fundamental principles and standards of good practice, underscoring the importance of integrity in everyday research.
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 3 Items
04.12.2024
LIDO Primer
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Language(s):
English
The LIDO Primer provides a sound introduction to the metadata schema LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) and contains illustrative XML examples for describing objects with LIDO.
07.12.2023
What are Authority Data?
NFDI4Culture Video Guideline
Author(s):
Melanie Gruß, Desiree Mayer
Contributor(s):
Eva Bodenschatz
Version: 1.0.0
The tutorial basically explains what authority data are and how they can be used in relation to research data. In addition, the video describes the role of authority data for different entities and from different providers and explains their potential for the Semantic Web.
31.08.2023
Catalog of Quality Problems in Data, Data Models and Data Transformations (2020)
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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.
Data sharing & publishing 3 Items
31.05.2024
Basics of digital preservation. A guideline to digital preservation from the perspective of the NFDI4Culture community.
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Jörg Heseler, Alexandra Büttner, Matthias Arnold
Version: 1.0.3
The guideline conveys the basics of digital preservation, introduces digital archives in NFDI4Culture, explains the path of research data into the digital archive, explains the OAIS model and introduces preservation strategies. The focus is on cultural assets.
14.08.2023
Repositories - Introduction to selection
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Language(s):
German
Forschungsdaten.info is the German-language information portal on research data management (FDM). On the topic of "repositories" there is a general introduction, including the topics: Choosing a repository and certification.
14.08.2023
From project proposal to data publication
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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.