NFDI4Culture – Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage

关于有形和无形文化资产的数字数据是日常生活、交流和体验的重要组成部分。它对文化认同的认知以及研究、文化经济和社会之间的互动产生了持久的影响。在过去三十年中，许多文化遗产机构为丰富的文化资产数字表示(绘画、乐谱的2D数字复制品、雕塑、纪念碑、房间、建筑物的3D数字模型)、视听数据(音乐、电影、舞台表演)以及编码和注释格式等程序性研究数据做出了贡献。长期保存和公平获得文化遗产领域的研究数据至关重要，这不仅对未来人文学科的学术成就，而且对个人和整个社会的文化自我理解都是至关重要的。到目前为止，在国家一级还没有协调一致的专业研究数据管理工作。NFDI4文化旨在填补这一空白，创建一个以用户为中心、研究驱动的基础设施，涵盖从音乐学、艺术史和建筑到表演、戏剧、电影和媒体研究等广泛的研究领域。该联盟解决的研究格局的特点是强烈的机构差异化。该联盟感兴趣的社区中的研究单位包括大学研究所、艺术学院、学院、画廊、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆。这种多样化的格局还具有丰富的研究对象、方法和数据驱动研究的巨大潜力。该提案的申请者和共同申请者以及十个学术团体进行了一项独特的努力，首次将这个利益共同体联系在一起，采用一种非常适合相关研究人员需求的联合方法。开放国家外国直接投资内部的合作、分享知识和技术以及继续支持其用户从一开始就是该联盟的指导原则，并将成为所有工作流程和决策过程的核心。通过这种方式，NFDI4文化得到了从个人研究人员到教科文组织、国际博物馆理事会、开放知识基金会和维基媒体等高级别文化遗产组织的大力支持。在此基础上，NFDI4文化将采取创新措施，促进文化变革，使研究数据更具反思性和可持续性，同时提高文化遗产领域以数据为导向的研究的资质和专业化程度。这将对整个科学、文化经济和社会产生长期的影响。

Digital data on tangible and intangible cultural assets is an essential part of daily life, communication and experience. It has a lasting influence on the perception of cultural identity as well as on the interactions between research, the cultural economy and society. Throughout the last three decades, many cultural heritage institutions have contributed to a wealth of digital representations of cultural assets (2D digital reproductions of paintings, sheet music, 3D digital models of sculptures, monuments, rooms, buildings), audio-visual data (music, film, stage performances), and procedural research data such as encoding and annotation formats. The long-term preservation and FAIR availability of research data from the cultural heritage domain is fundamentally important, not only for future academic success in the humanities but also for the cultural self-understanding of individuals and society as a whole. Up to now, no coordinated effort for professional research data management on a national level exists. NFDI4Culture aims to fill this gap and create a user-centred, research-driven infrastructure that will cover a broad range of research domains from musicology, art history and architecture to performance, theatre, film, and media studies. The research landscape addressed by the consortium is characterised by strong institutional differentiation. Research units in the consortium's community of interest comprise university institutes, art colleges, academies, galleries, libraries, archives and museums. This diversified landscape is also characterised by an abundance of research objects, methodologies and a great potential for data-driven research. In a unique effort carried out by the applicant and co-applicants of this proposal and ten academic societies, this community of interest is tied together for the first time within a federated approach that is ideally suited to the needs of the involved researchers. Openness for collaboration within the NFDI, sharing of knowledge and technology and continued support for its users have been the guiding principles of the consortium from the beginning and will be at the heart of all workflows and decision-making processes. Through this, NFDI4Culture has gathered strong support ranging from individual researchers up to high-level cultural heritage organisations such as the UNESCO, the International Council of Museums, the Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia. On this basis, NFDI4Culture will take innovative measures that promote a cultural change towards a more reflective and sustainable handling of research data and at the same time boost qualification and professionalisation in data-driven research in the domain of cultural heritage. This will create a long-lasting impact on science, cultural economy and society as a whole.