A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Catholic Social Teaching and the New Millennium
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Transcript of The voice in the wilderness? Archivists, their knowledge and the public
The voice in the wilderness?
Archivists, their knowledge and the public
Keynote at KVAN studiedagen 2015
Dr. Irmgard Becker
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• scientia potentia est• kennis is kracht• knowledge is power
Motto
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• Archives are the base of social memory• Archivists have a wide range of knowledge to
create this base of social memory– records management– digital archiving– knowledge of history
Knowledge of archivists
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• Three levels1. Level
• Offering archivist’s knowledge to administration agencies
• Offering archivist’s knowledge to the public
2. Level• Cooperation and Networking
3. Level• Influencing the political sector
• Conclusion
Outline
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Nürnberg city archive• responsible for the municipal records management since
1961• ELAN (Elektronische Akte Nürnberg) project to implement
electronic records• city archive was involved in from the beginning of the
project• Consequences
– a unique document management software in administration– correct electronic records in the archive
Offering archivist’s knowledge to administration agencies
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Hamburg State archive • Evaluation of records to be disposed of in administration• Need to improve records management in administration
of the state of Hamburg• Hamburg state archive established a records
management unit to advice administration• Consequences:
• Partnership with financial department to implement an information management system
• responsibility for the transparency portal of Hamburg
Offering archivist’s knowledge to administration agencies
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Nürnberg city archive, Oral history project immigration
Offering archivist’s knowledge to the public
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Nürnberg city archive, encyclopedia
Offering archivist’s knowledge to the public
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Heilbronn city archive• Basis of strategy: enthusiasm• online information management system• presenting the history in an entertaining way for adults
and children
Offering archivist’s knowledge to the public
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Heilbronn city archive
Offering archivist’s knowledge to the public
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Heilbronn city archive• Consequences:
– funding form foundations and companies for projects– The archive is anchored very well in the municipal
society
Offering archivist’s knowledge to the public
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• Nestor - Network of Expertise in long-term Storage and availability of digital Resources in Germany
Cooperation and Networking
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• AUdS - Team of experts for archiving records from digital systems
Cooperation and Networking
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state archive of Baden-Württemberg
Cooperation and Networking
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• state archive of Baden-Württemberg• Levels of cooperation
– cooperation with other states of Germany– cooperation to support the use of the software DIMAG– cooperation as a service partnership– cooperation to preserve data in the digital archive of
Baden-Württemberg
• Other cooperations– German archives portal– Research project to digitise archival material
Cooperation and Networking
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• On a municipal level• On a regional level• On the federal level
– Fostering connections to politicians– Influencing political debates– Commenting draft bills and political decisions
Influencing the political sector
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• Offering archivist‘s knowledge to administration and the public– To be a respected partner of administration – To be linked into the local or regional society– To get additional funding
• Cooperation and networking– To share knowledge– To spread standards– To manage complex issues like digital archiving
• Influencing the political sector– To put through archival requirements– To build up the legal prerequisites for the tasks of archives
Conclusion