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.
NFDI4Objects
In the last funding round, the humanities consortium NFDI4Objects was approved in the last funding round and will start its work in March 2023 as one of two new humanities consortia. NFDI4Objects will support scientists from various disciplines who deal with the material heritage from three million years of human and environmental history. The specialist communities addressed include not only various archaeologies, but also anthropology, building research, geoarchaeology, archaeobotany, zoology, genetics and physics, palaeopathology, archaeometry, conservation, ethnoarchaeology and cultural preservation and provenance research institutions . These disciplines combine common methods and data collection procedures and an established, interdisciplinary discourse.
At the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne, the Institute for Digital Humanities (IDH)the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH) and the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) and the Archaeological Institute are represented in the consortium.
Contact and further information on NFDI4Objects
E-mail: Helpdesk
Newsletter: Mailing list
Website: https://www.nfdi4objects.net/
Twitter: @nfdi4objects
Local forum
Information for researchers at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities is also available on the website of the NFDILocalforum@PhilFak website.
