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KVAN-dagen – 17 June 2014
CONNECTING COLLECTIONS
Tim Veken & Petra Links NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide
Studies
Outline
1. EHRI project
2. Metadata integration
3. Virtual helpdesk
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
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
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
Metadata integration
Reuse of existing descriptions Harvesting
Metadata – EHRI Survey
Part of the collection catalogued in digital metadata
Bron: Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2014 (ENUMERATE), page 21
Reusable digital descriptions not available
Descriptions don’t describe the Holocaust related content
Need for new descriptions
Newly created metadata required
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
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
EHRI - Alpha
Archival mediation
Descriptions of Collection Holding Institutions
Virtual Helpdesk
EHRI Portal
Reuse of existing metadata
New metadata created on several levels
Possibilities for new services
Summary
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)