生活與文化主題小組包括了人類學與考古學主題工作組。就主要藏品類型而言，人類學方面的主要蒐集包括：原住民、客家、閩南、少數民族、外省等文化族群之器物、文書資料、照片、錄影帶、文物、標本、參考書目等；考古學方面主要的蒐集包括：挖掘的遺物、遺跡、遺址之相關記錄資料、文物及日記、遺址照片等。

 

　　目前主題小組召集人為任教於國立暨南國際大學人類學研究所的潘英海所長，本年度參與計畫單位有中央研究院歷史語言所、行政院原住民族委員會、行政院客家委員會、國立台灣博物館、台灣藝術大學之機構計畫與公開徵選計畫等13個計畫。

 

　　生活與文化主題小組主要工作任務在於協助各計畫建立數位化的標準與工作流程，協調各計畫共同建置台灣多樣性知識網，以及進行台灣多樣性資源調查等讓更多的單位參與國家型數位典藏的相關計畫。

 

 

　　The Life and Culture Thematic Group consists of two sections: the anthropology team and the archeology team. The major collection of the anthropology team includes photos, sound & music, videos, relics, specimen, documentary information, and references of Aboriginal, Hakka, Minan, other minorities and migrants from Mainland China. The major collection of the archeology team includes photos of excavated relics, sites, diaries and related records.

 

　　Presently, the Life and Culture Thematic Group is chaired by Professor Inghai Pan, director of Graduate Institute of Anthropology, National Chi-Nan University. There are about 13 request-for-proposal projects and institute projects including Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica, Council of Indigenous Peoples (Executive Yuan), Council of Hakka Affairs (Executive Yuan), National Taiwan Museum, and National Taiwan University of Art.

 

　　The mission of the Thematic Group is to establish standards for digitization and workflow, to coordinate the collaboration among different projects for developing knowledge net based upon different themes, and to search for potential resources for future participation in the National Digital Archive Project.