About 40 participants of the ECA2010 made on Friday afternoon a short trip to the World Health Organization (WHO). There they got a profound introduction into the archival environment of such an institution.
A highlight of the visit was the view from the terrace on the 8th floor, with a great view all over Geneva and [...]
Richard Blake’s intervention tackles with the importance of having good software as a prerequisite for good records management. However, even if the software is a good application, it may not ensure records management if bad configured.
Some ISO standards already deal with this issue, namely ISO 15489 (records management) and ISO 23081 (metadata for records), as [...]
At the beginning of the session, Marc Fresko made a distinction between the past and the future of Moreq 2. About the past, Jef Schram from the European Commission wrote “Moreq 2: development of a European standard” in which the author describes the history of Moreq, DLM Forum and the European Commission, and Moreq Governance. [...]
Werner Matt, Archivist of the city of Dornbirn (AU) – Doing expositions on the internet
Also smaller archives think more and more about doing a part of their public relations on the internet. More traditional forms of expositions consume a lot of resources and are often only for a limited time visible. Moreover have many [...]
Petra Rauschenbauch, German Federal Archive:
Using retro- conversion of finding aids and digitalisation of archival documents to achieve an all-embracing online presence of archives
The Federal Archive got the mission the give an online access to the fund of the first free elected chamber of the people („Volkskammer“) of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) on [...]
(By Ruud Yap, National Archives of the Netherlands)
So many presentations, so little time. What sessions does one choose. I guess one should go for the sessions with practical solutions to everyday problems. The excellent session of Robert Sharpe “Digital Preservation Processes: Archival Judgement and automation” proved just to be that. The session concerned the issue [...]
Alice Chateau presented this morning the work achieved by a team of French young professionals working on a volunteer basis under the leadership of Marie-Anne Chabin (Archive 17) to deliver a French version of the ICA standard, ICA-Req. This ICA project not only aims to provide the translation, but also to develop a reflection on [...]
Caroline Kimbell, Head of Licensing at The National Archives of England and Wales (TNA) with the responsibility for the digitization programme, talked today about the balance and tensions between reuse and digitization of archives.
Caroline started the session by explaining why TNA’s online strategy has not reduced the number of readers coming every year to [...]
There was a time when NARA’s former conceptual framework for preserving electronic records worked well. Electronic records sent to NARA were products of mainframe databases in ASCII. This situation changed with the developments and use of information and communication technologies, volume of digital information and diversity of documents in multiple formats. In order to address [...]
The National Archives in The Netherlands is responsible for ensuring the long-term preservation of paper records and digital records. Increasingly, the Government is working with digital records and the National Archives has to address several challenges. Currently, the National Archives stores 7 terabytes of digital records, in particular text records, websites and databases, whereas 17 [...]
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