Analog research materials are artifacts or objects of ritual or everyday use. They are created or collected during ethnographic fieldwork and may include items such as photographs, notes, books, audio tapes, drawings, or sculptures. To make these materials reusable online, they must first be digitizedDigital data are created through digitalization, which involves converting analog materials into formats suitable for electronic storage on digital media. Digital data offer the advantage of being easily and accurately duplicated, shared, and machine-processed. Read More and provided with appropriate metadataMetadata are descriptions of research data (data about data) and provide content-related and structured information about the research context, methodological and analytical procedures, as well as the research team that generated the data. They can be categorized into bibliographic, administrative, procedural, and descriptive metadata and are typically created using templates, ReadMe files, or data curation profiles. Metadata are published alongside the research data themselves and are essential in online repositories and research data centers, where they enable third parties to understand and contextualize datasets. Metadata also enhances the findability and machine-readability of data, making them a key component of the FAIR Principles and good scientific practice. Read More, allowing them to be made accessible in a repositoryA repository is a storage location for academic documents. In online repositories, publications are digitally stored, managed, and assigned persistent identifiers. Cataloging facilitates the search and use of publications and author information. In most cases, documents in online repositories are openly and freely accessible (Open Access). Read More, for example (Forschungsdaten.info, 2023). The organization OpenAIRE provides guidelines for the secure handling of analog, non-digital research data¹see: https://www.openaire.eu/non-digital-data-guide.