The project “Monuments and Artworks in East Central Europe Research Infrastructure” exemplifies introducing methods and tools of digital humanities to art-historical problems in multilingual and culturally diverse milieu. East Central Europe is a region with historically changing borders and different national cultures of knowledge. For such a region, a proper transnational scientific infrastructure is vital for the adequate description and classification of art-historical monuments, and dynamic networks of actors and cultural phenomena. Drawing on our project experience, we argue that the model of knowledge created through the process of data modelling and setting standards for digital images can be seen as an interpretative and epistemological frame for research. This paper analyses the transnational integration of catalogued data into the infrastructure through a semantic data model. We tackle the question of implementation of multilingual external vocabularies and authority control in the database. The method of indexing photos in the context of the material turn is another crucial issue in the infrastructure. In addition, this paper underlines practical challenges of the project such as: involvement in an international network of collaborators, legal requirements, and copyright.

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数字历史向东：文化遗产资产的数据库描述：“东中欧研究基础设施的项目纪念碑和艺术品”

“东中欧研究基础设施的纪念碑和艺术品”项目举例说明了将数字人文的方法和工具引入多语言和多元文化环境中的艺术史问题。东中欧是一个有着历史上不断变化的边界和不同民族知识文化的地区。对于这样一个地区，适当的跨国科学基础设施对于艺术史古迹的充分描述和分类以及行为者和文化现象的动态网络至关重要。借鉴我们的项目经验，我们认为通过数据建模和设置数字图像标准过程创建的知识模型可以被视为研究的解释性和认识论框架。本文通过语义数据模型分析了编目数据与基础设施的跨国整合。我们解决了在数据库中实施多语言外部词汇表和权限控制的问题。在材料转向的背景下索引照片的方法是基础设施中的另一个关键问题。此外，本文还强调了该项目的实际挑战，例如：参与国际合作者网络、法律要求和版权。