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 1 Items
02.05.2025
Erstcheck Provenienzforschung: Eine Handreichung für die Praxis (2024)
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Language(s):
German
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.
Overarching topics 1 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.
Rights & Ethics 9 Items
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.
23.01.2025
Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines AoIR (2019)
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Language(s):
English
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.
10.01.2025
SOCRATES: Social Media Research Assessment Template (2021)
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Language(s):
English
"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.
15.08.2023
The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
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Language(s):
English
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).
15.08.2023
Research ethics principles and review procedures in the social and economic sciences
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Language(s):
German
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."