Call for Applications: 2nd NFDI4Culture Music Award (Germany)

Task Areas

Task Areas address the needs of researchers at all stages of the research process: from the level of data capture, collection and enrichment of tangible and intangible cultural assets to the level of data standardisation, analysis, data publication (taking into account complex ethical and legal situations), data reuse and training.

• Capture & Enrichment (Data capture and enrichment of digital cultural assets)
  • Digital representations of tangible and intangible cultural assets provide an essential basis for research in the cultural heritage domain and are more and more present in the day-to-day work of scholars. Thereby, an ever-increasing variety of technologies and data types is being employed, such as 2D, 3D, audio, video, AR/VR, thermography or computer tomography.
• Standards, Quality & Curation (Standards, data quality and curation)
  • The aim is to develop and establish recognised standards and procedures for quality assurance of research data in academic fields that deal with tangible and intangible cultural assets.
• Tools & Services (Research tools and data services)
  • Within the context of research on material and immaterial cultural assets, research tools and data services are used to generate, analyse, administer, distribute, publish, and make data available in the long term. Therefore, they are crucial instruments for managing research data sustainably.
• Publication & Availability (Data publication and data availability)
  • Within the cultural heritage domain, both repository providers and researches from all disciplines face increasing challenges concerning the publication and long-term digital preservation of research outputs. The growing complexity calls for an improvement of existing standards and the optimisation of services across the subject areas art history and architecture, musicology, performing arts as well as film and media studies.
• Technical, Ethical & Legal (Overarching technical, ethical and legal activities)
  • The main objective is to guarantee a permanent and comprehensive technical infrastructure for the entire consortium which is closely intertwined with the legal and data-ethical aspects.
• Qualification & Training (Cultural Research Data Academy)
  • They bring together all administrative and co-ordinative activities, incentives for participation and inward-outward cooperation, dissemination, community engagement and outreach while taking care of reporting and all governance operations.
• Governance & Administration (Governance and Administration)
  • They bring together all administrative and co-ordinative activities, incentives for participation and inward-outward cooperation, dissemination, community engagement and outreach while taking care of reporting and all governance operations.

Award Information

• The award is presented in two different categories:
  • Category 1 (Qualification Award): up to 1500 €
    • Qualification theses (M.A./PhD and comparable) completed in the years 2022/23 from all musicological disciplines the results of which further contribute to NFDI4Culture’s work programme and the above mentioned task areas.
  • Category 2 (Project Award): up to 3000 €
    • Musicological projects of various kinds by researchers, artists, and persons from the cultural sector which results further contribute to NFDI4Culture’s work programme and the above mentioned task areas.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible for participation are researchers, artists, and persons from the cultural sector who at the time of participation work at or are affiliated with a university, higher education or non-university research institution and/or cultural institution based in the Federal Republic of Germany. The affiliation of at least one author to the submitted thesis or project is decisive.
• Only self-nominated music-related or musicological projects are permitted to participate. Multiple submissions of a project or thesis by different co-authors are not permitted and will lead to exclusion from the award. With the submission of a project or thesis, all co-authors must agree to participate in the award.
• Private persons and commercial actors cannot participate in the award. Projects or thesis in which at least one author is or has been funded by the NFDI4Culture consortium are not eligible to participate.

For more information, visit NFDI4Culture.