2-3 December 2014, The Hague, The Netherlands

This EHRI workshop will focus on the information policy required in a digitally joined-up world and is intended for people responsible for the information strategy at archives, museums, libraries and other institutions that hold collections. It is not a technical workshop. The objective of the workshop is to improve the collaboration between the collection holding institutions, IT-service providers and Information Customers, such as EHRI.

Registration

Programme

EHRI set out to support the European Holocaust research community and to help initiate new levels of collaborative research through the development of innovative methodologies, research guides and user-driven transnational access to research infrastructures and services. To this end, EHRI has designed and implemented a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) offering online access to dispersed key Holocaust archival materials and to a number of online tools to work with them.The VRE and online portal will be launched in March 2015.

Metadata policies

Responsible for designing and implementing a central metadata repository to store metadata about the disparate and dispersed collections was the Data Integration Infrastructure team. Close cooperation with archives and other collection holding institutions was required for access to their metadata. The integration of metadata has shown to be complicated, not so much for technical problems, as for organizational challenges. In many cases it proved to be unclear what policies applied to metadata and who was responsible for them.

Improve collaboration

This EHRI workshop will focus on the information policy required in a digitally joined-up world and is intended for people responsible for the information strategy at archives, museums, libraries and other institutions that hold collections. It is not a technical workshop. The objective of the workshop is to improve the collaboration between the collection holding institutions, IT-service providers and Information Customers, such as EHRI.

Information and registration

For more details and information, you can email Gaithrie Ganesh, gaithrie.ganesh@dans.knaw.nl.

A maximum of 15 persons can participate in the workshop. A maximum of two persons per organization can attend.

Registration is on the basis of first come first serve and is possible untill 10 November 2014 via: Gaithrie Ganesh, email: gaithrie.ganesh@dans.knaw.nl.

Programme

Day 1

• 1. Welcome
• 2. Introduction
• 3. EHRI Portal
• 4. Computers are Users too
• 5. Case Studies

Day 2

• 1. Break-out sessions
• 2. Feedback
• 3. Sustainable Publishing
• 4. Wrap-up