Culture Knowledge Base

This guide is intended for those working in museums who wish to undertake an initial check for unlawful contexts in the provenance of objects in their collections. It will help them to plan and carry out their work, as well as providing an introduction to this area of research.

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.

The Association of Internet Research (AoIR) provides internationally renowned guidelines (version 3.0) to the ethical challenges of Internet research. The Companion Resources (6.) contain further topics for in-depth study.

"SOCRATES: Social Media Research Assessment Template for Ethical Scholarship" is a introduction to the ethical, security and legal issues of data-driven social media research.

The CARE Principles were formulated to complement the FAIR Principles with an important research ethics aspect. The topic is explained in an introductory way and via the page one can obtain both a summary and a detailed presentation (each as a PDF).

The Council for Social and Economic Data's 2017 handout is "a first step towards a discipline-wide and interdisciplinary understanding of research ethics principles and review procedures in the German-language social and economic sciences."