News

HECTOR-Editor and ArcSpectra now available

HECTOR and ArcSpectra are two new digital tools now available for research!

Biodata IG Workshop Report now published

Collaboration between DataPLANT, FAIRagro, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4BIOIMAGE and NFDI4Microbiota

The detailed programme for the prometheus anniversary conference is now online!

From our network

GWK secures further funding for the NFDI from 2029

The Joint Science Conference (GWK) has decided to continue funding the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) from 2029 to 2038. The federal and state governments will provide up to 98.7...

NFDI4Culture Art History Award

Call for Participation

Survey on Publishing and Versioning of iDAI.field Data

Dear colleague, You are invited to participate in a survey conducted as part of the CiVers project (Citation of Versioned Web Pages by PID) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)....

Survey on the provision of information in the museum

We have received the following request regarding participation in a survey, which we would very much like to share here:

New features in LIDO 1.1 and LIDO mapping for export from data collection systems

Recommendation from our network:

Invitation to the first KIŠIB-Conference

Recommendation from our network:

4th Community Meeting in NFDI4Objects

The programme for the virtual event and further updates on the workshop series

4th DASV-QGIS-Workshop in cooperation with NFDI4Objects

Announcement and Information about the Workshop on July 16, 2026

NFDI4Biodiversity - Boosting Biodata Bootcamp

From September 15–17, 2026, NFDI4Microbiota, together with other consortia of the NFDI Biodata Interest Group, will host the “Boosting Biodata Bootcamp” at RWTH Aachen University. The conference is aimed at...

Consultation hours for the minimum record recommendation

May 20, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.

Call for Papers: Digital Minds or Digital Mines?

Digital Archaeology as a Critical Archaeology of the Digital

CRMarchaeo - An Introduction

““KultDig” Lunch on May 29, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Save the date: Event on Building reference- and Norm Data

at Hannover

New Whitepaper on the topic of Fuzzyness & Wobbliness in the Community Hub

Definitions of vagueness, uncertainty and their combination in the Cultural Heritage Domain

WissKI- user meeting

on october 20/21, 2026 at Nürnberg

Focus on Research Data: Forever lasts the longest

Workshop of the BBAW on June 25 and 26

Election results

New spokesperson elected for NFDI4Objects

Text + Show & Tell Sessions with NFDI4Objects

in April 2026

Save the Date 4th Community Meeting in NFDI4Objects

June 12 2026

CAA DE Workshop 2026

We are pleased to share the following information from our network

SODa Barcamp on May 20 - 22, 2026 at Nürnberg

From our network

Workhop of the LIDO Service Center in NFDI4Culture

April 30, 2026, 13:00 CET, online

SCRE publishes position paper

Impulse on Research Ethics and Law

Minimum Data Set Consultation hours

From our network

Call for Papers for the FAIR 3D HERITAGE Conference

September 14–16, 2026, Mainz

Collaboration Workshop of the deRSE at Göttingen

Call for Contributions

Survey of the CC Qualifikation & Open Educational Ressources

until March 31 2026

DDB consultation hours for museums and collections

From our network, we would like to draw your attention to the following dates from the German Digital Library

Clustermeeting of the CC Data Capture and Creation

on march 10, 2026 at 2:30 p.m., on the subject of location data

Lunch & Learn

on digital art history

Clustermeeting of the CC Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on march 12, 2026

Clustermeeting of the CC Objects as information carriers

Invitation to the meeting on march 19, 2026

Presentation of the publication "FAIR Vocabularies and Authority Files for Museums and Collections"

On March 16, 2026 at 2 p.m.

New TWG "Vocflow. Workflows for vocabulary publication and maintenance

Approved by steering commitee

DiKoPa Archaeogaming Hackathon

from March 6 to 8, 2026

Survey by the German Digital Library

Digitized cultural heritage

Clustermeeting of the CC Data Capture & Creation

Invitation to the meeting every second Tuesday every two months, starting March 10, 2026

New publication on the subject of object biographies and collection documentation now available:

From inventory to knowledge graph – object documentation through the ages, using the example of the Berlin Kunstkammer and its successor institutions by Diana Stört and Sarah Wagner

Clustermeeting of the CC Geophysical Prospection

Invitation to the meeting on march 13, 2026

Clustermeeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the session on march 11, 2026 on the subject of buildings in the GND

Publication FAIR Vocabularies and Authority Files for Museums and Collections

Now also available in English!

WiNoDa: Who's hiding behind museum collections?

A Wikidata Edit-a-thon

Minimum Record Recommendation Working Group Consultation Hour

First consultation hour on February 18, 2026, 2:00 p.m.

Inaugural meeting of the TWG CARE Principles

Invitation to the session on february 19, 2026

Show & Tell: Master´s thesis Marthe Küster, Die Welt in Briefen (The world in letters)

A Text+ event

FactGrid Community Mailing List

New

Student colloquium on numismatic shops in berlin from 1933 onwards

Review on february 29, 2026

WiNoDa: From Drawers to the Open Web:

Wikidata for Natural History Museum Collections

NFDI4Objects for DFG review

Presenting NFDI4Objects on the DFG-Kolloquium

Public Archaeology

New community cluster established

CC Public Archaeology

New community cluster established

Clustermeeting CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies on february 17, 2026

Presentation of the publication “FAIR Vocabularies for Museums and Collections”

Publication FAIR vocabulary in museums and collections

Now online on Zendodo!

Networkmeeting NFDI Berlin-Brandenburg

Invitation to the meeting on may 19, 2026

Clustermeeting of the CC Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the session on february 11, 2026

Position paper on object biography published

Now online on Zenodo!

Kickoff-Meeting of the TWG access levels/ permissions for research data in collections

Invitation to the first session: TWG "Access levels for research data"

Report on the CAA-Webcast in cooperation with NFDI4Objects

Q&A on Research data management

Hack the Heritage - First Culture Data Hackathon in Thuringia

from February 20-21, 2026

Invitation to the student colloquium on Numismatic shops in Berlin from 1933 onwards

on January 29, 2026

Brief Report on Meeting "Windows on data: Objects and Methods" online

on 2nd December 2025

Meeting of the TWG Community-Standards for modelling fuzziness & wobbliness in research data using Semantic Web technologies and formalisms

Invitation to the meeting on January 10, 2026

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on January 27, 2026

Spokesperson election

Results of the election

Cluster meeting of the CC Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on January 13, 2026

QGIS Workshop together with NFDI4Objects

organized by the DASV e.V.

Cluster meeting of the CC RDM-Support

The inaugural meeting of the new FDM Support Community Cluster will take place on **January 19, 2026, at 10 a.m.** The cluster is aimed at anyone involved in FDM consulting...

Cluster meeting of the CC Collection Management

Invitation to the 3rd meeting on December 11, 2025

Cluster meeting of the CC Digital Provenance Research

Invitation to the 4th quarterly meeting of 2025 on December 11, 2025!

Cluster meeting of the CC Qualification & Open Educational Ressources

Inaugural meeting on December 10, 2025

Three new white papers in the Community Hub

Research data management in collections and museums

Cluster meeting of the CC Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on December 10, 2025

TWG meeting "Community-Standards for modelling fuzziness & wobbliness in research data using Semantic Web technologies and formalisms"

Invitation to the TWG meeting on December 2, 2025

Meeting of the TWG ‘Community Recommendations for Long-Term Archiving’

Invitation to the 1st meeting of the GIS sub-group on 12 November 2025

Cluster meeting of the CC Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on 11 November 2025

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on 9 December 2025: The authority file systems of iDAI.world

Cluster Meeting of the CC Service Portfolio Development

Constitutive meeting on 6 November 2025 from 4 to 5 p.m.

Q&A on Research Data Management

Interactive Webcast on 14 November 2025

Call for Participation From earth to the web 2.0 Data management from excavation to e-publication: Legal challenges and possible solutions

Call for Participation

Webcast: Your questions about research data management to NFDI4Objects

Save the Date!

Review of FORGE 2025

Contributions from N4O now published

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on 11 November 2025: Historical geodata in the letters to Goethe

Constituent meeting of the TWG Provenance research in textile archaeology

On 7 November, 11:30 am

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on 21 October 2025: Vocabs-Service

New version of the minimum data set recommendation (version 1.1) published

Now available online

Workshop discussion on digital provenance research

Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 13-14 h, online

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on 20 october 2025

Minimum data set for conservation and restoration measures at the SODa Forum

Presentation & feedback round

Extension of the CfP for posters and Ignite Talks for our CM

Deadline until 22 September

Berlin autumn meeting of Museum Documentation 2025

Key topics Use of AI and research data management in museums

N4O at the CAA DE Workshop in Cologne

25-26 September

DiHMA.Lab with MaRDI and NFDI4Objects

'Objects and methods'

Review: N4O at the CoRDI

Contributions from our consortium

Workshop review

‘Object - Text - Image’

Cluster meeting of the CC Conservation Science

Invitation to the meeting on 17/09/2025

‘Digital Minds or Digital Mines? Digitality and Archaeology’

NFDI4Objects at Fishbowl-Discussion of AG TidA

The white paper "**Summary of the status quo in research data management for the field of conservation-restoration (2025)**" has been made available for public comment in our Community Hub. The...

Reminder: Call for Participation

Ignite Talks and Poster for our Community Meeting

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on 22 september 2025

Our Community-Hub is online!

New platform for closer networking within our community

WiNoDa Online Winter School

Research with Natural Science Collections: Data, Quality and Methods

New Commons contribution ‘Proof of ownership in collections’ is available for comment

Cordial invitation to comment

Consultation hour on long-term archiving at NFDI4Objects

Every last Tuesday of the month

Call for papers, posters and registration of meetings of TWGs and CCs

Contributions for the NFDI4Objects Community Meeting 2025 in Bochum

Registration open: 3rd Community Meeting

You can register for our 3rd NFDI4Objects Community Meeting until 19 September 2025

Job advertisement: Student assistant (m/f/d)

Klassik Stiftung Weimar

NFDI4Objects at CoRDI

N4O represented with several contributions

NFDI4Objects at FORGE 2025

N4O represented with several contributions

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on 2 September 2025, 2 pm, on the topic of personal data and seals in ancient Egypt: Egyptological thesauri and the development of human-readable standard data...

The object biography as the cornerstone for a new understanding of collection representation

Blog post of the CDI of the FAU

Review of the DiKopA workshop ‘Digital skills in the archaeological disciplines’

Short review

‘Now we just have to find the right field...’

High-quality metadata in editions

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on 18 August 2025 with special topic ‘Dating’

Programme for the N4O Community Meeting 2025

30.09. to 02.10.2025 at the German Mining-Museum Bochum

Digital Classicist Seminar

Call for Papers 2025/26

Annual conference of the Association of State Archaeologists

NFDI4Objects as a guest at the VLA conference on 3 June 2025

Invitation to participate in planned CCs

CC Qualification and Open Educational Resources and CC-RDM support

International networking at the DARIAH Annual Event 2025

17 to 20 June 2025

QGIS Workshop of DASV e.V. together with NFDI4Objects

QGIS workshop for beginners

Second NFDI metadata workshop in Hanover

A further step towards interoperable, cross-consortia research data management

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on July 28, 2025

NFDI4Objects at the FDM Theme Days 2025

Shaping the future - creating structures

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on 16 July 2025 on the topic of ‘Terminology Services 4NFDI’

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

SODa as a guest at the CC - Invitation to the meeting on 22 July 2025

Cluster meeting of the CC Digital Provenance Research

Invitation to the meeting on 26 June 2025

Job advertisement: (Geo-)Computer Scientist (m/f/d)

At the Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rhineland-Palatinate (GDKE) as part of the TA4

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on 9 July from 2 - 3:30 pm

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on July 7, 2025

Presentation of the knowledge graph for NFDI4Objects

Integrated research data for cultural heritage

Hackathon at the German Mining Museum

Together for better research data!

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on June 16, 2025

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the meeting on May 27, 2025

Presentation of DANTE, an online service for standardisation data and terminologies

On 30 June 2025, 2 pm, online

FactGrid-Workshop: Ontology pluralism in graph databases

On 16 June 2025, 2 pm to 3:30 pm, online

Linked Open Data HERMES presence workshop in Mainz

On 5/6 June 2025 at LEIZA in Mainz

The use of BARTOC and Cocoda for the NFDI

On 4 June 2025, 1 pm, online

The life story of the Zenker lung

Workshop on specimens of human origin in university collections

NFDI4Culture forum event ‘Measuring the quality of cultural data - but how? Concepts, methods, potentials and the approach of NFDI4Culture’

NFDI4Objects as guest at NFDI4Culture

Kick-off Meeting of the TWG Community Recommendations for Long-Term Archiving

On June 4, 2025 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the 2nd meeting on 14 May from 2-3 pm

NFDI4Objects at RaDiHum20

RaDiHum20 talks to representatives of the Humanities@NFDI

Cluster meeting of the CC Conservation Science

Invitation to the meeting on May 6, 2025, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

SODa BarCamp 2025

7-9 April 2025

26th EAC Annual Meeting and Heritage Management Symposion

NFDI4Objects represented with several contributions

DHd 2025 in Bielefeld

NFDI4Objects represented with two workshops

New series of workshops on standardisation from the Text+ consortium

Online event series on the use of standards and standards-based tools

Cluster meeting of the CC Collection Management

Invitation to the 2nd meeting on April 30, 2025 from 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Cluster meeting of the CC Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the 3rd meeting on 12 May from 10:00-12:00 am

Cluster meeting of the CC Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the 2nd meeting on 2 April from 12:30-2:30 pm

Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files & Community-driven Vocabularies

Kick-off meeting on 03.04.2025

Ceremony to mark the launch of the Imagines Nummorum project

Presentation of the academy project

Conference ‘Heritage BIM in Monument Preservation - Innovative Strategies for Conservation and Monitoring’

How do climate change and environmental influences affect built cultural heritage?

Survey on Site and Monument Data Standards in Germany

Basis for the development of cross-border standards for the exchange of monument and site data

First Commons contribution online!

"Overview of research data management in museums and university collections"

Meeting of the Community Cluster Digital Provenance Research

Thursday, 13 March 2025, 1:00 pm

Call for participation

Temporary Working Group “Community-Standards for modelling fuzziness & wobbliness in research data using Semantic Web technologies and formalisms (FuzzyWobblySW)”

Job advertisement: Student assistants (m/f/d)

Academy project ‘Imagines Nummorum Graecorum’ at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Meeting of the Community Cluster Protected Heritage Sites

Invitation to the constitutive meeting on March 17, 2025

Job offer: Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d)

Join our team at Mainz University of Applied Sciences

Community Survey on Research Data Management in Conservation Science

Participate until March 17, 2025

Workshop report ‘Uncertainties and Vagueness in Provenance Data and their Modelling’

Online workshop 23.01.2025

Workshop of the Metadata Section of the NFDI e. V.

Development of NFDI-wide recommendations for metadata standards

Save the Date: Community Meeting 2025

Community event enters third round

Save the date: Online consultation on 7 February 2025

FDM counselling for students and doctoral candidates

Looking back on the NFDI4Objects Community Meeting 2024

This was the 2nd Community Meeting in Mainz

‘Connecting Data, Connecting People’ in Berlin-Brandenburg

Successful NFDI4Objects kick-off event for networking the FDM communities

Call for participation in new Temporary Working Group

New TWG on the status quo of the written medium in epigraphic tools and services is looking for collaborators

Invitation to the Base4NFDI Services Roadshow

Presentation and discussion of all Basic Services

Cluster meeting of the CC Provenance Research

Community Cluster Provenance Research organises last meeting of the year on 28 November

Job offer: Scientific programmer (m/f/d)

Current vacancies at the DAI

NFDI4Objects as a guest at FAIRagro

FAIRagro Plenary from 13 to 15 November 2024 in Berlin

Base4NFDI Services Roadshow

Presentation of all Basic Services of the NFDI

Invitation to the workshop of the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab

First workshop on 27 November 2024 in Berlin

Cluster meeting of the CC On-Site-Documentation

Digital meeting of the Community Cluster On-Site Documentation on 19 November 2024

Call for Papers for CAA International Conference 2025 extended

Annual conference of CAA International from 5 to 9 May 2025 in Athens

Network meeting Berlin-Brandenburg: Programme published

Regional network meeting of NFDI4Objects on 7 November 2024

This was the SODa Barcamp 2024

NFDI4Objects at the kick-off event of the SODa project

Call for Papers for CAA International Conference 2025 opened

Annual conference of CAA International from 5 to 9 May 2025 in Athens

Invitation to the WissKI user meeting

Hybrid event from 20 to 21 November 2024 in Nuremberg

Invitation to our online workshop

Objects as inscription carriers: The materiality of inscribed cultural assets in digital space, 22 October 2024

SODa Barcamp 2024

Event at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 14 to 16 October 2024

Invitation to the virtual World Café

From the earth to the web: Data management from excavation to e-publication, 20 November 2024 (online)

Directions: 2nd Community Meeting

Here you will find information on how to get to our two conference locations in Mainz for the 2nd NFDI4Objects Community Meeting.

Reimbursement of travel expenses: 2nd Community Meeting

Here you can find out who can apply for reimbursement of travel expenses for our NFDI4Objects Community Meeting 2024 and how.

Annual meeting of the European Archaeological Association

NFDI4Objects at the EAA 2024 in Rome

NFDI4Objects Community Survey 2024

Call and cordial invitation to participate

NFDI4Objects Dataship

These are our four winners

Registration open: 2nd Community Meeting

You can register for our 2nd NFDI4Objects Community Meeting until 13 September 2024.

Agenda now online: 2nd Community Meeting

Please find information on our agenda for the 2nd NFDi4Objects Community Meeting here.

Save the Date: 2nd Community Meeting

Our 2nd NFDI4Objects Community Meeting will take place from 25 September to 27 September 2024 in Mainz.

Dataship Pitch Event 2024

The pitch event for our first Dataship tender will take place on 14 June 2014.

Digital services in archaeology

Call for Papers of the Conference of the Archaeological Associations

Dataship: Call for proposals now open

Apply now until 17 May 2024 for our NFDi4Objects Dataships.

Cluster meeting CC Provenance Research

Invitation to the constituent meeting on 29 February 2024

BYE BYE TWITTER

Together with all consortia we freeze our channel

Community Survey 2023 – Documentation Standards

Call and cordial invitation to participate

Ready, steady, go!

NFDI4Objects picks up speed

NFDI4Objects approved

Let's go!

Conference of DGUF & NFDI4Objects

16/18 June 2022 in Frankfurt/M.

Application submitted for NFDI4Objects

Now it's time to keep your fingers crossed!

Deadline for the submission of NFDI applications in the third round

Deadline November 2, 2021