NFDI4Objects is an initiative within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) to build a consortium dedicated to the material heritage of around three million years of human and environmental history.

Currently, research data resources are often stored in a decentralized, project-bound and temporary manner. Within the scope of the NFDI this research data shall systematically be made accessible to the entire German science community and networked both nationally and internationally. For the design of the National Research Data Infrastructures, users and providers work together in consortia.

The NFDI4Objects consortium addresses the needs of researchers and practitioners whose work focuses on the material heritage of around three million years of human and environmental history. Our community consists not only of archaeologists, but also of anthropologists, architectural historians, ethnoarchaeologists, geoarchaeologists, archaeobotanists, archaeozoologists, archaeogeneticists, palaeopathologists, archaeophysicists, archaeological conservators and archaeometrists, as well as museums, archives and heritage agencies. NFDI4Objects covers the material legacies of past human activities: Artefacts, architecture, archaeological features and anthropogenically shaped landscapes as well as biological or ecological remains.