the eastern and north-eastern european archives between digitisation, web 2.0 and social media

Doreen Kelimes, City Archives Speyer (DE)Doreen Kelimes, City Archives Speyer (DE)

The eastern and north-eastern The eastern and north-eastern European archives between European archives between

digitisation, Web 2.0 and social digitisation, Web 2.0 and social mediamedia

APEx-Conference 26. – 28. June 2013 / Dublin

IntroductionIntroductionThe archival work of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland

1.Digitisation projects

2.Social Media

Digitisation projectsDigitisation projects

• Creation of virtual reading rooms and online-databases to present the digitized collections

• First projects based on digitisation of register of births, deaths and marriages and church books

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: EstoniaEstonia

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: EstoniaEstonia Saaga•Digitized archival records from the National Archives of Estonia and Tallinn City Archives

•Access to genealogical materials

•First prototype in 2004

•Public web version release in 2005

•Since 2008 all digitized records by the Estonian National Archives and Tallinn City Archives online

•There are: 118 332 digitized volumes, 10 928 554 images, 13 449 GB

•www.ra.ee./saaga

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: EstoniaEstoniaMore databases•FIS - Filmarhiivi infosüsteem (1264 films in the web)

•www.filmi.arhiiv.ee/fis

•FOTIS - Fotode infosüsteem (434 671 photos in the web)

•www.ra.ee/fotis

•Rahvusarhiivi kaaride infosüsteem (23464 maps in the web)

•www.ra.ee/kaardid

Other Projects•Two Beginnings of the Republic of Estonia

•APEX

•YEAH (You! Enhance Access to History)

•SHIPWER

• Electronic database of the National Archives of Estonia and Tallinn City Archives

• 8,7 million records on AIS

• www.ais.ra.ee

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: LatviaLatviaRaduraksti•Create and support on-line resources for family history research

•Preservation of originals of the microfilmed and digitalized records

•5 777 832 images, total user account 82 359 since 2007

•www.lvva-raduraksti.lv

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: LatviaLatvia„Baltic Connections“•Database presents material of the countries around the Baltic Sea during the period 1450-1800

•Material themes: trade, shipping, merchants, commodities, diplomacy, finances and migration

•Common project of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden

•www.balticconnections.net

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: LithuaniaLithuaniaEpaveldas•Project for digitisation of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage•Partners: Lithuanian Art Museum, Lithuanian Archives Department under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and the National Library of Lithuania•Project duration: 30 months•Creation and access of Lithuanian cultural heritage content by development the virtual heritage system (VEPS – Virtual Electronic Heritage System)•www.epaveldas.lt

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: LithuaniaLithuania

Filmarchives online

•“Finding Moving Images in European Collection”

•Project duration: 2006-2009

•Partners: 18 institutions under the lead of the Deutsches Filminstitut (DIF)

•Contains non-fiction material, i.e. documentary, educational films, newsreels, travelogue, advertising

•www.filmarchives-online.net

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: PolandPoland

Szukaj w archiwach•Online database

•Project by the National Digital Archive

•Released in 2009

•More than 5 million images online

•The aim of the site is full accessibility and openness!

Digitisation projects: Digitisation projects: PolandPoland

Projects by the Head Offices of State Archives•Casualties and victims of repression under the German occupation since 2006•APENET Project – Archives Portal Europe•Reconstruction of the Memory of Poland•Index Programme

Web 2.0 and social mediaWeb 2.0 and social media• Building networks• Tagging, crowdsourcing,

collaborative description• Cooperation – communication –

interaction• Wikis, micro blogging, social

networks, social bookmarks, podcasts

Generally• Use by the current archives is very

different, but not at a standstill• Communication in native language• Mainly using of Facebook• Other: Twitter, Foursquare, Skype

Social Media: Social Media: Estonia Estonia

  Rigiiarhiiv

Estonian

State

Archives

Rahvusarhii

v

National

Archives of

Estonia

Ajalooarhiiv

Estonian

Historical

Archives

Joined

Faceboo

k

17/11/2010 04/05/2010 01/12/2012

Total

Likes

(29/05/2

013)

728 371 782

Age

Group

25 – 34

years old

25 – 34 years

old

35 – 44 years

old

Social media: Social media: LatviaLatvia The Latvia State Archive of Audiovisual Documents

Joined Facebook 07/11/2012

Total Likes

(29/05/2013)

64

Age Group 25 – 34 years old

The Latvia State Archive of Audiovisual Documents

Joined Facebook 07/11/2012

Total Likes

(29/05/2013)

64

Age Group 25 – 34 years old

: KinoFotoArhivs : KinoFotoArhivs

:LVKFFDA

:LVKFFDA

Social media: Social media: LithuaniaLithuania

The Lithuanian

Special Archives

County Archives

Vilnius

National Library

and the project

“Epaveldas”

Joined Facebook 02/06/2011 15/05/2012 28/10/2009

Total Likes 116 42 643

Age Group 18 – 24 years old 18 – 24 years old 25 – 34 years old

Social media: Social media: PolandPoland

Thank you very much!Thank you very much!

Doreen Kelimes, City Archives Speyer (DE)Doreen.Kelimes@Stadt-Speyer.de

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