Project Details
Projekt
Networking for net-works – the coordination project of the DFG pilot phase Digitization and provision of (still) rights-protected objects
Applicant
Professor Dr. Achim Bonte
Subject Area
Private Law
Term
since 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 554786010
With the help of a competitively organized pilot phase for the digitization and provision of (still) rights-protected objects, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) would like to determine the framework conditions of its future funding activities for the legally confirm public accessibility of contemporary and historical holdings in cultural heritage institutions – in four complementary fields of work: 1. legal framework conditions and design options, 2. standardized rights description, 3. presentation systems and rights management, and 4. derivatives. As a consequence of its joint activities in dialog with the DFG committees for the conceptual preparation of this call, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB) is applying for the coordination project for the mutual networking and moderation of the funded sub-projects of the pilot phase – with the advisory involvement of the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden and the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. This flexible and adaptive institutional constellation not only ensures that the subject area of the pilot phase is considered in its entirety across all disciplines. The SBB can also convey the museum and image archive perspective for the coordination work, as it cooperates in a variety of contexts with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which also belongs to the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, while the bpk-Bildagentur, which also works for other institutions worldwide, is even organizationally assigned to it. Thanks to the case-related participation of the four advisory institutions, this fluid application network brings together documented expertise in all of the fields of work mentioned as well as numerous academic contacts, so that a smooth bidirectional exchange between coordination and pilot projects in dialog with research across disciplinary boundaries can also be expected in terms of content. In addition to its topic-related internal and external communication and coordination services, the proposed coordination project would also like to support the funded pilot projects in the bundling, target group-specific processing and open access publication of their results for free re-use – not least by supplementing the DFG's Digitization Code of Practice and its subsequent updates accordingly. The same applies to the general public relations work of this initiative, which is so urgently awaited by both the research and infrastructure sides, with which the DFG intends to make it easier for archives, libraries and museums to extend their digitization activities to the second half of the 20th Century and to transform contemporary or historical collection objects into online works that are as freely accessible as possible.
DFG Programme
Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
