UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

NFDI4Culture – Consortium for Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage

Funding since October 2020

The aim of NFDI4Culture is to establish a demand-oriented infrastructure for research data on tangible and intangible cultural heritage and to create a common structure at national level that strives for the sustainable preservation, standardisation and provision of research data on cultural heritage. The consortium addresses the needs of a wide range of disciplines from architecture, art and music to theatre, dance, film and media studies.

As one of nine supporting institutions, the University of Cologne is represented by Dr Lisa Dieckmann (prometheus image archive); the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), the DCH and the Theatre Studies Collection (TWS) are also involved in the consortium as participants:

Co-Applicants
- Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
- FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Structure
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Universität zu Köln
- Philipps-Universität Marburg
- University of Paderborn
- Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB) Dresden
- Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), Berlin
- Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover

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Text+ Language and Text-based Research Data Infrastructure

Funding since October 2021

The aim of Text+ is to establish a demand-oriented infrastructure for research data from language and text-based sciences in the NFDI, which endeavours to sustainably secure and provide research data from cultural heritage. The consortium focuses on three data domains: language and text-based collections, lexical resources and editions. With this focus, the consortium addresses the needs of various humanities disciplines, including linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, classical philology, anthropology, non-European cultures and languages as well as language and text-based research in the social sciences, economics, political science and history.

At the University of Cologne, there will be a central research centre of the consortium, which will be established at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) as part of the long-standing cooperation with the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK). The Cologne centre will coordinate the "Editions" data column within the consortium. The AWK is represented in the consortium as one of five supporting institutions, while the University of Cologne is involved as a participant with the contribution of DCH and the Institute of Linguistics (IfL) to the data columns "Language and text-based collections" and "Lexical resources".

Applicant Institution
- Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim

Co-Applicant Institutions
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Berlin
- German National Library (DNB), Leipzig/Frankfurt a. M.
- North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK), Düsseldorf
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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NFDI4Memory – Consortium for the historically working Humanities

Funding since March 2023

The NFDI4Memory consortium includes all historical sciences beyond the historical sciences. The University of Cologne is represented in the consortium by the Chair of Early Modern History and the Centre for Teacher Education (ZfL). The DCH, together with the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), is also involved as a participant and contributes its expertise in the areas of metadata standards, data curation, data literacy and consulting to the consortium.

Applicant Institution
- IEG - Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz

Co-Applicant Institutions
- Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (LABW), Stuttgart
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB), Munich
- Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (DM), Munich
- FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Structure
- Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands e. V. (VHD)
- Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (HI), Marburg
- Humboldt University (HU) Berlin
- Martin Luther University (MLU) Halle-Wittenberg
- University of Trier (UT)
- Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da)

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NFDI4Objects – Research Data Infrastructure for the Material Remains of Human History

Funding since March 2023

NFDI4Objects is a consortium for scientists from various disciplines who are working on the material heritage from three million years of human and environmental history. This includes artefacts, architecture, archaeological features and anthropogenically shaped landscapes as well as biological or ecological remains. Through Prof. Dr Øyvind Eide, the DCH is a participant in the application together with the Institute for Digital Humanities (IDH), the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) and the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CoDArchLab).

Applicant Institution
- German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin

Co-Applicant Institutions
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU)
- German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Central Scientific Services, Berlin
- Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM)
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (GDKE), Mainz
- Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences
- Landesamt für Denkmalpfl ege Baden-Württemberg, Esslingen am Neckar
- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum - Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie (RGZM), Mainz
- Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum - Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie (RGZM), Restaurierung und Konservierung, Mainz
- Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), Berlin
- Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV), Verbundzentrale (VZG), Göttingen

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