european holocaust research infrastructure
DESCRIPTION
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Twintig organisaties uit dertien landen hebben de afgelopen jaren gewerkt aan de ontwikkeling van een digitale infrastructuur voor onderzoekers van de Holocaust. In het voorjaar van 2015, zeventig jaar na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, zal de portal worden gepresenteerd. Tijdens de KVAN-dagen zal een inkijkje worden gegeven in de inhoud van de portal en de helpdesk. Ook wordt ingegaan op hoe de archiefbeschrijvingen zijn gemaakt, opgehaald, opgeslagen en hoe ze worden gepresenteerd. De EHRI-portal zal de toegang tot de gefragmenteerde en verspreide bronnen over de Holocaust verbeteren. De portal bevat onder andere beschrijvingen van collecties en archieven, collectiebeherende instellingen, organisaties en personen. Ook zal op nationaal niveau informatie worden aangeboden over de Holocaust, de archiefcultuur en de instellingen waar onderzoekers terecht kunnen voor aan de Holocaust gerelateerde bronnen. Onderzoekers kunnen in de portal zoeken naar beschrijvingen, virtuele collecties samenstellen, annotaties maken en resultaten delen. Een automatische helpdesk helpt onderzoekers bij het beantwoorden van vragen door ze in contact te brengen met een relevante collectie beherende instelling. Petra Links archivaris en teamleider Collecties - NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies Tim Veken Informatie Specialist Collecties - NIODTRANSCRIPT
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KVAN-dagen – 17 June 2014
CONNECTING COLLECTIONS
Tim Veken & Petra Links NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide
Studies
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Outline
1. EHRI project
2. Metadata integration
3. Virtual helpdesk
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Facts & figures
EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)
Funded by the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) of the European Union
Duration: 48 months (2010-2014)
Coordinator: Dr. Conny Kristel (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam)
Nineteen organisations from thirteen countries form the EHRI Consortium
EU financial contribution: € 7 million
www.ehri-project.eu
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Overall objectives
EHRI wants to support the Holocaust research community by:
1.integrating key archival collections into a portal
2.encouraging Holocaust research and investigating new methodologies
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Integration of collections
This is necessary because of the fragmentation
and dispersal of archival sources, due to
geographical scope of the Holocaust attemps to destroy the evidence emigration of Holocaust survivors multiplicity of documentation projects after the war
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Metadata integration
Reuse of existing descriptions Harvesting
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Metadata – EHRI Survey
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Part of the collection catalogued in digital metadata
Bron: Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2014 (ENUMERATE), page 21
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Reusable digital descriptions not available
Descriptions don’t describe the Holocaust related content
Need for new descriptions
Newly created metadata required
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Metadata integration – work in progress
57 Country Reports 1,792 Repositories in 50 Countries 69,829 Archival Descriptions in 95 Repositories
11,833 top-level descriptions via harvesting 1,233 top-level descriptions newly created
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Metadata integration
1,178 Historical Agents of 730 Corporate Bodies and 448 Persons
3,162 Concentrations Camps and Ghettos 76 Events 882 Terms in 10 Languages
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EHRI - Alpha
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Archival mediation
Descriptions of Collection Holding Institutions
Virtual Helpdesk
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EHRI Portal
Reuse of existing metadata
New metadata created on several levels
Possibilities for new services
Summary
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NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NL)
CEGES-SOMA Centre for Historical Research
and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (BE)
Jewish Museum in Prague (CZ)
Institute of Contemporary History Munich – Berlin (DE)
YAD VASHEM The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority (IL)
The Wiener Library – Institute of Contemporary History (UK)
Holocaust Memorial Center (HU)
HL-senteret Center for Studies of Holocaust
and Religious Minorities (NO)
NAF National Archives of Finland (FI)
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute (PL)
King’s College London (UK) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen – Göttingen State and University Library (DE) Athena RC/IMIS (GR) DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services (NL) Shoah Memorial, Museum, Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (FR) ITS International Tracing Service (DE) Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (DE) Terezín Memorial (CZ) Beit Theresienstadt (IL) VWI Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (AT)