Standardization and harmonisation processes for object-related research data in NFDI4Objects

The talk introduces how the NFDI4Objects consortium develops sustainable, interoperable, and FAIR research data infrastructures for material and digital objects in fields such as archaeology, museums, conservation, and art history. Its work is based on the concept of object biography, which understands objects as dynamic networks of events, actors, places, and meanings across their lifecycle. The consortium harmonizes and extends international standards like CIDOC CRM and LIDO by creating metadata profiles, ontologies, vocabularies, and knowledge graph integrations to enable interoperable data exchange. Through its decentralized Knowledge Graph infrastructure, NFDI4Objects supports FAIR and CARE principles while ensuring sustainable, semantically linked, and accessible cultural heritage data services.