The NFDI at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne
With the "Daten & Datteln" collection cards for the winter semester 2022/2023, we would like to inform you about the current developments towards a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities' involvement in this:
Since the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII) initiated the formation of an NFDI in 2016, structures for a nationally networked research data infrastructure in Germany have been steadily advanced. The focus is on establishing an organizational and technical infrastructure for the systematic management of research data in line with the FAIR principles.
The project is being implemented by subject and/or data-driven consortia, in which subject-specific research and infrastructure institutions as well as the subject community itself are involved. The humanities are represented within the NFDI by four consortia: NFDI4Culture, Text+, NFDI4Memory and NFDI4Objects.
NFDI4Memory
The NFDI4Memory consortium was approved as part of the last funding round in 2022 and will begin its work in March 2023. The aim of NFDI4Memory is to build and establish an infrastructure by creating systematic and sustainable links between researchers working in the field of history, memory institutions (e.g. archives, libraries, museums and collections) and information infrastructures. The work of NFDI4Memory thus explicitly addresses researchers working in the field of history.
At the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne, the Chair for the History of the Early Modern Period at the Historical Institute, the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) and the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH) are involved in the consortium as participants. In addition, the University of Cologne's Center for Teacher Education (ZfL) is also a participant in the consortium.
Contact and further information on NFDI4Memory
E-Mail: 4memory(at)ieg-mainz.de
Newsletter: Mailing list
Website: https://4memory.de/
Twitter: @nfdi4memory
Local forum
Information for researchers at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities is also published on the website of the NFDILocalforum@PhilFak website.
