11.09.2023 HeFDI Data Talk on Friday, 22 September 2023, 11-12h: "NFDI4 - Memory. A Research Data Infrastructure for Historically Engaged Disciplines" (DE)

In this Data Talk on Friday, 22 September 2023, 11-12h, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmunk will present the NFDI4Memory consortium, its task areas as well as developments and challenges for historically engaged disciplines and research data.

The online event is free of charge; click here to register. With the registration you will receive the access data, which are valid for all talks of our bi-weekly series. The talk will be held in German.

The NFDI4Memory consortium began its work in March 2023 as part of the DFG's third funding round. The scope of the consortium includes not only the field of history as such but also other disciplines that make use of historical data as part of their methodologies, such as economics, social science, geography, and area studies. The consortium aims to ensure the quality of historical research data, thereby safeguarding the critical role of the humanities in complex, rapidly changing societies. Determining how the long-standing traditions of source criticism - a speciality of the historically engaged disciplines - can be applied to digital data is a principal goal of 4Memory.

Organisationally, 4Memory aims to establish systematic, sustainable links among three main categories of the producers and users of historical data: historical researchers, memory institutions (archives, libraries, museums, and collections) and information infrastructures.

In this Data Talk, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmunk will present the NFDI4Memory consortium and its task areas as well as the specific challenges historically engaged disciplines face in response to the digital turn, such as  the need for methodological innovation, data literacy and data management.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmunk, Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences (h_da)

Chair: Dr. Björn Trebels, THM & Maria Kiefer, HeFDI Coordination Office

Our HeFDI Data Talks are a bi-weekly open information and discussion event series on current topics, offers and services in the field of research data management. The Data Talks take place every second Friday (even calendar weeks) from 11-12h as a web conference.
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