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Base4NFDI

Base4NFDI, a joint initiative by all 26 NFDI consortia, lays the foundations required to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of research data.

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NFDI4Memory

The NFDI4Memory consortium unites historically oriented humanities disciplines with the goal of assuring the quality of historical research data and thus consolidating the crucial role played by the humanities in complex, rapidly changing societies.

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NFDI4Objects

NFDI4Objects covers the material legacy of past human activities across three million years of human and environmental history: artefacts, architecture, archaeological findings, anthropogenically formed landscapes and biological or ecological remains.

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Text+

The Text+ consortium works on developing a language- and text-based research data infrastructure.

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PID Network Deutschland

Its goal is to establish a network of existing and currently developing stakeholders which are interested in the persistent identification of persons, organisations, publications, resources and infrastructures in the field of digital communication in science and culture.

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NFDI4Culture

NFDI4Culture is the consortium within the Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) that addresses research data on tangible and intangible cultural assets.

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Automatic cataloguing system

The use of innovative methods provided by AI (Artificial Intelligence) for processing and analysing texts and metadata is set to further improve the quality of machine-based subject cataloguing.

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BIBFRAME

In 2011 the Library of Congress launched the "Bibliographic Framework Initiative" (BIBFRAME), aimed at replacing the existing formats, such as MARC 21 and MODS.The possibilities opened up by Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies were to be taken into account.

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ORCID DE

Implementation of ORCID is being considered by many universities and non-university research institutions; the aim of the DFG ORCID DE project is to provide sustained support for this by means of a cross-cutting approach.

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GND für Kulturdaten (GND4C)

GND4C is an Integrated Authority File (GND) sub-project funded by the DFG which aims to make the hitherto library-oriented, cross-disciplinary, cross-domain authority data hub accessible to other cultural and scientific institutions.

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DDB-Zeitungsportal (Newspaper Portal)

The project “DDB Zeitungsportal” (DDB Newspaper Portal) will encompass the development and implementation of a portal that provides centralised, user-friendly access to digitised historical newspapers from all over Germany. The “Deutsches Zeitungsportal” went online in October 2021.

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Catalogue Enrichment 1945-2021

During the course of this major project, the tables of contents of all the books in the stacks at the Frankfurt am Main location acquired up to 2012 are to be digitised, enriched with text recognition, linked with the relevant data records, and made freely accessible through the portal and data services.

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HERMES

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the aim of this project is to establish a data competence centre for the humanities and cultural sciences that will promote further training and continuing education in data competence both in the fields of research and teaching and in libraries, archives and museums.

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Completed projects

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