Curated Repository List

Repositories are storage locations for digital research results and research data. This selection provides an overview of subject-specific and generic repositories for the 4Culture community which offer sustainable publication and archiving solutions for humanities and cultural research data in different media formats. (Information as of May 2022)

The following selection primarily includes services of the NFDI4Culture applicant institutions. If you offer a research data repository for the Culture Communities or if you miss a service on this list, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

arthistoricum.net – Fachinformationsdienst Kunst, Fotografie, Design, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

ART-Dok

ART-Dok is the open access repository of arthistoricum.net. Scholars have the opportunity to publish online publications (monographs, articles, lectures, preprints, etc.) free of charge and open access. It is further possible and desirable to deposit an electronic copy of works that have already appeared in print (i.e. self-archiving).

Contact Person: Dr. Maria Effinger

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arthistoricum.net – Fachinformationsdienst Kunst, Fotografie, Design, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

arthistoricum.net – ART-Books

arthistoricum.net – ART-Books is the free, open access publication platform of arthistoricum.net for scholarly e-books in the fields of art history, photography and design. Both first publications and copies of already published works (i.e. self-archiving) can be published, including the option to make print editions available as print-on-demand. Publishing is free of charge while fees apply for digital preservation.

Contact Person: Dr. Maria Effinger

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arthistoricum.net – Fachinformationsdienst Kunst, Fotografie, Design, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

arthistoricum.net – eJournals

arthistoricum.net – eJournals offers a technical infrastructure for the publication of open access journals for art scholars around the world. The service also includes the transformation of print journals into e-journals. Publishing is free of charge.

Contact Person: Dr. Maria Effinger

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arthistoricum.net – Fachinformationsdienst Kunst, Fotografie, Design, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

arthistoricum.net @ heiDATA

arthistoricum.net[at]heiDATA is the research data repository of arthistoricum.net. In addition to the e-publishing services for articles, books and journals, arthistoricum.net offers the possibility to permanently archive corresponding research data and connect them to the publication. All research data receive a designated DOI and are thus accessible and retrievable as independent scholarly achievements. Fees apply for larger data volumes.

Contact Person: Dr. Maria Effinger

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Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur

Bildindex is a collaborative database in which around 80 cultural and scientific institutions – museums, heritage conservation offices, libraries, university and research institutes – jointly publish their image and data holdings on art and architecture. Accessing the contents of the portal and participating as a data-supplying institution is free of charge.

Contact Person: Dr. Christian Bracht

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Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

DARIAH-DE Repository

The DARIAH-DE Repository is a digital archive for the long-term preservation of research data in the humanities and cultural studies that aggregates various services and applications. The repository enables research data to be stored sustainably and securely, to be tagged with metadata and PID/DOI, and to be curated and retrieved via its own publishing tool. The service is free for data providers.

Contact Person: Regine Stein

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Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden

Deutsche Fotothek

Deutsche Fotothek is an archive for works by well-known German photographers or by photographers working in Germany. The photographs belong to the holdings of SLUB Dresden or originate from collections of cooperating partners. The platform offers the possibility to research photographs, paintings, graphics as well as collections of maps and architectural drawings. Publishing is free of charge while fees apply for digital preservation.

Contact Person: Dr. Jens Bove

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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

heiARCHIVE

heiARCHIVE is the digital preservation archive developed and operated by the Competence Centre for Research Data, a joint service of Heidelberg University Library and Heidelberg University Computing Centre. All formats considered to be suitable for long-term preservation can be archived. It functions primarily as a so-called "dark archive", i.e. the archived research data and publications are not publicly accessible.

Contact Person: Leonhard Maylein

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Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

heidICON – Heidelberger Objekt- und Multimediadatenbank

heidICON is a digital and interdisciplinary image and multimedia repository provided by arthistoricum.net. The service can be used by art scholars around the world in the context of project cooperations or open access publications. Moreover, heidICON serves as an aggregator database which links to reference tools such as prometheus, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) or Europeana.

Contact Person: Dr. Maria Effinger

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Universität zu Köln

Kompakkt

Kompakkt provides the possibility to make images, videos, audio files and especially 3D models available, add annotations and to access them collaboratively in groups and collections. These media files can further be implemented in external websites. The service is free of charge.

Contact Person: Zoe Schubert, M. A.

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Philipps-Universität Marburg

media/rep/

media/rep/ is an open access repository primarily for the free publication of copies of works that have already been published and for the retrieval of full texts in cultural media studies.

Contact Person: Dr. Kai Matuszkiewicz

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musiconn - Fachinformationsdienst Musikwissenschaft, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden

musiconn.publish

musiconn.publish is a repository for the open access publication of musicological literature. The service includes first publications as well as copies of works that have already been published (i.e. self-archiving). For journals, long-term availability is guaranteed for at least 10 years. The service is free of charge.

Contact Person: Dr. Christian Kämpf

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Universität zu Köln

prometheus - A distributed digital image archive for research and teaching

prometheus is a decentralised digital image archive for teaching and research that serves as a search and working platform for all image-based subjects. prometheus connects over 100 national and international databases of institutes, research institutions and museums and makes them searchable via one user interface. prometheus further provides persistent URLs for all images.

Contact Person: Dr. Lisa Dieckmann

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FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur

RADAR4Culture

RADAR4Culture is a low-threshold and easy-to use service for sustainable publication and preservation of cultural heritage research data. It offers free publication for any data type and format according to the FAIR principles, independent of the researcher´s institutional affiliation. Through persistent identifiers (DOI) and a retention period of at least 25 years, the research data remain available, citable and findable long-term. Currently, the offer is aimed exclusively at researchers at publicly funded research institutions and (art) universities as well as non-commercial academies, galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Germany. No contract is required and no data publication fees are charged. The researchers are responsible for the upload, organisation, annotation and curation of research data as well as the peer-review process (as an optional step) and finally their publication.

Contact Person: Kerstin Soltau

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Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden

SLUBArchiv.digital

SLUBArchiv.digital is the digital preservation archive of SLUB Dresden which offers archiving of all data formats considered to be suitable for long-term preservation. The archived research data itself are not publicly accessible since the archive serves as a so-called "dark archive". The service is fee-based.

Contact Person: Dr. Gerald Hübsch

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Technische Informationsbibliothek

TIB AV-Portal

The TIB AV-Portal is a portal for scientific videos focusing on technology as well as architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics. The videos include computer visualisations, learning materials, simulations, experiments, interviews, video abstracts, recordings of lectures and conferences as well as (freely accessible) audiovisual learning and teaching materials. On the basis of free licensing (Creative Commons), many videos are reusable.

Contact Person: Sven Strobel

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Technische Informationsbibliothek

TIB Preservation-as-a-Service

TIB offers various service components around digital preservation, depending on source material, which take into account licensing, organisational and technical requirements for the materials. In this way, TIB offers services in particular for research and teaching at universities, colleges and non-university research institutions, libraries, archives, museums and infrastructure facilities. The service is fee-based for data providers.

Contact Person: Thomas Bähr

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