Protected Heritage Sites
The community cluster “Protected Heritage Sites” aims to improve the systematic development, access to, and exchange of (research) data in the fields of monument protection and preservation. The main focus will be on spatial data, the associated metadata, and the legal status of the objects, as well as the legal consequences arising from the data. The protection of cultural heritage primarily falls under the cultural sovereignty of the federal states. The relevant datasets are very diverse across the various executing authorities and are primarily organized according to their own needs, organizational processes, and target systems. There is a significant lack of interfaces and standards, as well as comparability of specialized vocabularies and technical mappings between data fields in different information systems. In the future, regional comparability would be desirable, for example, to simplify overarching research, inquiry, and administrative tasks. This community cluster is intended to serve as a discussion platform for questions of data exchange as described above for monument authorities, research, industry, and society. In this way, stakeholders will be involved in the development work of NFDI4Objects. This will enable the participating actors to design and formulate interfaces and networks, while also creating concrete tools, such as a standardized geodata service, that meet practical needs.