Online Chat Announcement | 19. березня 2026

New offer starting March 25: Hands-on Dialogue on Digitisation

Practice Meets Dialogue – Share questions. Find solutions.

The Hands-on Dialogue on Digitisation is a new, cross-sector discussion format for (retro)digitisation practitioners from libraries, archives, museums, and collections. The focus is on your specific questions from the field. We provide the platform—you simply bring your topics, challenges, or experiences.

As a regular series of events, the Practical Dialogue offers a reliable opportunity to engage in dialogue—including with colleagues from other institutions whom you may not yet know.
In an open, collegial setting, you can work together to find solutions, share best practices, and learn from one another. 

The 60-minute lunchtime session will take place starting in late March, alternating between the last Wednesday (11 a.m.) and Thursday (1 p.m.) of the month.
No registration is required. Join us whenever it works for you—we look forward to the exchange!

Join the Zoom Meeting: No registration needed.
 

Kick-off: Wed, Mar 25, 11 a.m.: To kick things off, we’ll dive right into open questions from the “8th Workshop on Retrodigitisation—Digitisation for Eternity?—Data Quality in Practice” 

Thu, Apr 30, 1 p.m.: Featured topic: Goobi, Kitodo and others: Which workflow system is right for us? +++ New NFDI4Culture offer for the Hands-on Dialogue on Digitisation community: Collaborative Workspace (Forum - Wiki - Next Cloud - Rocket Chat)

Wed, May 27, 11 a.m.: Info-Snack: Report from the VIGO project on the further development of the DFG’s practical guidelines DFG - GEPRIS - Community-basierte Weiterentwicklung der Praxisregeln „Digitalisierung“ +++ Featured topic: Service providers, specifications and public contracts: what to bear in mind, where to find them?

Thu, June 25, 1 p.m.: Featured topic: The unknown user – which tools have proven effective in user research, and what aspects do we need to bear in mind?

Summer break in July

Thu, Aug. 27, 1 p.m.: Featured topic: Quality control as an integral part of the entire workflow 

Wed, Sept. 30, 11 a.m.: Featured topic: MSI in presentations – what experiences have been gained, and what solutions are being explored or implemented?

Thu, Oct. 29, 1 p.m.: Featured topic: Presentation systems

Wed, Nov. 25, 11 a.m.: Featured topic: JPEG XL – Has anyone already tried using it and can share their experiences? (For use in presentations and/or LTA)

Winter break in December

(Topics are continuously collected during the meetings. Minor changes to the topics are possible.)

NFDI4Culture: Special Interest Groups

NFDI4Culture works within various Special Interest Groups (SIG). The aim of our SIGs is to bring together and connect experts from different fields to discuss subject-specific RDM topics (digitisation, metadata for cultural heritage, etc.) and cross-cutting themes (3D, AI). The Hands-on Dialoge on Digitisation is an offer within the initiative SIG Digitisation, which is aimed at (retro)digitisation practitioners from libraries, archives, museums and collections.