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CENDARI Collaborative European Digital Archival Infrastructure

Building up a research infrastructure on the First

World War across borders

Dr. Anna BohnFreie Universität Berlin

Directory of Cultural Heritage Institutions

Items on the Subject First World War in the European Library

CENDARI and The European Library

• TEL partner institutions can contribute First World War collection descriptions for CENDARI

• Increase visibility of resources

• provide access to comparable and related collections holdings across institutional and national borders for historical research

• can serve as a basis for Research Guides on the First World War

Research Guide Fall of Dynasties: Imperial Russia, Austria-Hungary, German

Empire and Ottoman Empire

Item: Le grand-duc Peter Nicholaevitch, BNF

Research GuideSubmarine Warfare

Left: Signal code book of the Imperial German Navy, National Archives, Kew, Room 40Middle: log book submarine, Federal Archives Germany. Right: IWM Film 1917: Der Magische Gürtel, poster, IWM

combines a transnational approach with different media types and sources

defines lists of subjects, creators (persons and corporate bodies), events, locations related to submarine warfare

identifies institutions and their holdings /collections relevant to the topic

establishes links between different holdings/collections adds annotations to the description of records and/or

digitised objects refers to related archival guides, literature etc.

Research Guide: Submarine Warfare

Cooperation with other projectsArchives Portal Europe APEx http://www.apex-project.eu/

1914-1918-online. International Encyclopaedia of the First World War http://www.1914-1918-online.net/

DARIAH-EU Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities http://www.dariah.eu/

EFG1914 http://project.efg1914.eu/

Europeana collections 1914-1918 http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/

EHRI European Holocaust Research Infrastructure http://www.ehri-project.eu/

Would you like to contribute information on your First World War resources?

Please contact us by E-mail:Valentine.Charles@KB.nl (The European Library)

Anna.Bohn@fu-berlin.de (Freie Universität Berlin)

Website: www.cendari.euTwitter: @CendariProject

Thank you!