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.
Type:
Digitizing, Inventorizing, Enriching 2 Items
16.08.2023
FADGI – Digitizing Motion Picture Film (2016)
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Language(s):
English
This is an initial guide for institutions wanting to digitize their film resources. It compares a range of film "inputs" and digital "outputs" in the conversion of picture and sound information, and concludes with a sample service description for film-to-video conversion.
16.08.2023
FADGI – Creating and Archiving Born Digital Video (2014)
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Language(s):
English
These decision-making aids and methodological notes on the production and archiving of born-digital videos focus above all on the sustainability and interoperability of the solutions. Several case studies illustrate the implementation of the recommendations.
Documenting 2 Items
21.08.2023
Preparing Process Data
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Language(s):
German
The publication concisely explains the concept of process data as an important part of sustainable documentation in the humanities context and presents three schemas for process metadata.
21.08.2023
Transcription of Data
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Language(s):
German
The page highlights the aspect of transcription (as writing down what is spoken and observed) of qualitative research data and offers, among other things, further links for audio and video transcription as well as literature recommendations on the topic.
Overarching topics 4 Items
12.03.2025
Culture Community Report 2021
NFDI4Culture Report
Author(s):
Aleksander Marčić, Alexander Stark, Alexandra Büttner, Anastasia Wawilow, Angela Kailus, Anne Ferger et al.
In our annual report, we provide information about developments, progress, and outcomes in the consortium and communities, about our task areas and the services and resources developed there, and about our cross-consortium collaboration in the NFDI.
12.03.2025
Culture Community Report 2022
NFDI4Culture Report
Author(s):
Patrick Primavesi, Oliver Vettermann, Melanie Gruß, Martin Albrecht-Hohmaier, Martin Jörg Schäfer, Martha Stellmacher et al.
In our annual report, we provide information about developments, progress, and outcomes in the consortium and communities, about our task areas and the services and resources developed there, and about our cross-consortium collaboration in the NFDI.
04.03.2025
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.
17.02.2025
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.
Planning 1 Items
15.08.2023
Iconclass
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Language(s):
English
Iconclass is a comprehensive classification system for the indexing of representational content in pictorial collections that is used in museums, libraries and research projects worldwide. It is particularly suitable for indexing Western art.
Rights & Ethics 5 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…
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
Dealing with collection items from colonial contexts (2021)
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Language(s):
German
The guideline of the German Museums Association on dealing with collections from colonial contexts provides information and working aids for collections in researching, documenting and presenting objects and in cooperating with societies of origin.
Data sharing & publishing 2 Items
13.06.2025
Culture Graph Interchange Format
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Oleksandra Bruns, Etienne Posthumus, Harald Sack, Linnaea Söhn, Torsten Schrade, Jonatan Jalle Steller et al.
Version: 1.3.0
The Culture Graph Interchange Format is a lightweight data exchange format based on schema.org. It serves to integrate datasets from the domains of NFDI4Culture into the Culture Knowledge Graph and can enhance their discoverability on the World Wide Web.
12.06.2025
Data integration into the Culture Knowledge Graph
NFDI4Culture Guideline
Author(s):
Alexandra Büttner, Oleksandra Bruns, Heike Fliegl, Etienne Posthumus, Harald Sack, Torsten Schrade et al.
Version: 1.1.0
Data providers in the NFDI4Culture communities are invited to integrate metadata on research data into the Culture Knowledge Graph. The guideline outlines integration options and offers basic guidance for understanding the Culture Knowledge Graph.