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)