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The aim is to develop a sustainable and interoperable research data infrastructure for cultural heritage objects.

May 24, 2026Open Access

Standardization and harmonisation processes for object-related research data in NFDI4Objects

Key Points

The aim is to develop a sustainable and interoperable research data infrastructure for cultural heritage objects.
Developing metadata profiles, ontologies, and vocabularies for research data.
Harmonizing international standards CIDOC CRM and LIDO.
Creating a decentralized Knowledge Graph for data exchange.
Achieved integration of interoperable data exchange protocols across diverse fields.
Enhanced accessibility and sustainability of cultural heritage data services under FAIR and CARE principles.

Abstract

The talk introduces how the NFDI4Objects consortium develops sustainable, interoperable, and FAIR research data infrastructures for material and digital objects in fields such as archaeology, museums, conservation, and art history. Its work is based on the concept of object biography, which understands objects as dynamic networks of events, actors, places, and meanings across their lifecycle. The consortium harmonizes and extends international standards like CIDOC CRM and LIDO by creating metadata profiles, ontologies, vocabularies, and knowledge graph integrations to enable interoperable data exchange. Through its decentralized Knowledge Graph infrastructure, NFDI4Objects supports FAIR and CARE principles while ensuring sustainable, semantically linked, and accessible cultural heritage data services.

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Gerber et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a12964948a0ea1665672f46 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20345991

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