@article {1120, title = {EHRI - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure}, volume = {2018}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2018}, keywords = {Digital infrastructure, Holocaust}, url = {http://www.belspo.be/belspo/organisation/Publ/pub_ostc/sciencecon/59sci_nl.pdf}, author = {Francesco Gelati and Dirk Luyten} } @article {758, title = {Who holds the key to Holocaust-related sources? Authorship as subjectivity in finding aids}, journal = {Holocaust Studies}, year = {2016}, pages = {1-23}, abstract = {

The field of Holocaust studies relies on a wide variety of archives, dispersed all over the world. Identifying the right sources for a specific research question within this field is not easy or straightforward. Yet Holocaust scholars predominately focus on methodologies for source analysis rather than discovery. Archival finding aids are among the most important tools to aid primary source discovery, but have hitherto not been considered in methodological discussions on Holocaust research. In this article we will reflect on the composition of finding aids based on our work for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Our premise is that the content of finding aids is determined by their authors and the context in which they are creating them. The strongest argument for this subjectivity is that our work {\textendash} outlined in this article {\textendash} not only indicates that descriptions of one and the same source differ, but that they can do so quite considerably, and hence can influence research. Our stance is that historians optimize their profit from finding aids by becoming more sensitive to the subjectivity and authorship of descriptions. We conclude by showing how an online environment such as the one developed by EHRI can sensitize historians and archivists to the situated and subjective nature of finding aids by accommodating a plurality of descriptive voices, and encourage them to share their knowledge and become co-authors of finding aids.

}, doi = {10.1080/17504902.2015.1118193}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2015.1118193}, author = {Petra Links and Reto Speck and Veerle Vanden Daelen} } @article {312, title = {The Missing Voice: Archivists and Infrastructures for Humanities Research}, journal = {International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing}, volume = {7.1-2}, year = {2013}, abstract = {This article offers a critique of the transfer of a technological-scientific paradigm of research infrastructure to the field of the humanities. This critique is informed by our experience of formulating user requirements for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project, and especially by a series of interviews we undertook with user-facing archivists working at EHRI partner institutions. We argue that the archival voices we recovered during these interviews articulate a range of concerns that clash with some of the major assumptions that frame current discussions about research infrastructure. In particular, we demonstrate that archival research is currently heavily mediated by archivists. And yet, inter-mediation is a theme that is insufficiently explored in recent theorising about research infrastructure. Contextualising our findings within some recent trends in archival science, we show that an infrastructure such as the EHRI must be build around the complex relationship between scholar, archivist and archive. We conclude by indicating how building infrastructures for humanities research may enable us to fruitfully re-conceptualise and re-energise this relationship by transposing it from the physical world to digital environments.}, url = {https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-missing-voice-archivists-and-infrastructures-for-humanities-research(5fa9cce6-d3db-435a-a150-0d47ab857032)/export.html}, author = {Speck, Reto and Links, Petra} } @proceedings {310, title = {Comparison of named entity recognition tools for raw OCR text}, year = {2012}, month = {21September 2012}, address = {Vienna }, url = {http://www.oegai.at/konvens2012/proceedings/60_rodriquez12w/60_rodriquez12w.pdf}, author = {Rodriguez, Kepa Joseba and Bryant, Mike and Blanke, Tobias and Luszczynska, Magdalena} } @conference {757, title = {Sustainable Digital Publishing of Archival Catalogues of Twentieth-Century History Archives}, booktitle = {Open History: Sustainable digital publishing of archival catalogues of twentieth-century history archives, Brussels}, year = {2016}, month = {03/2016}, address = {Brussels}, abstract = {

One of the funded project proposals under DARIAH{\textquoteright}s Open Humanities call 2015 was {\textquotedblleft}Open History: Sustainable digital publishing of archival catalogues of twentieth-century history archives{\textquotedblright}. Based on the experiences of the Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archival Research Infrastructure (CENDARI) and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), the main goal of the {\textquotedblleft}Open History{\textquotedblright} project was to enhance the dialogue between (meta-)data providers and research infrastructures. Integrating archival descriptions {\textendash} when they were already available {\textendash} held at a wide variety of twentieth-century history archives (from classic archives to memorial sites, libraries and private archives) into research infrastructures has proven to be a major challenge, which could not be done without some degree of limited to extensive pre-processing or other preparatory work. The {\textquotedblleft}Open History{\textquotedblright} project organized two workshops and developed two tools: an easily accessible and general article on why the practice of standardization and sharing is important and how this can be achieved; and a model which provides checklists for self-analyses of archival institutions. The text that follows is the article we have developed. It intentionally remains at a general level, without much jargon, so that it can be easily read by those who are non-archivists or non-IT. Hence, we hope it will be easy to understand for both those who are describing the sources at various archives (with or without IT or archival sciences degrees), as well as decision-makers (directors and advisory boards) who wish to understand the benefits of investing in standardization and sharing of data. It is important to note is that this text is a first step, not a static, final result. Not all aspects about standardization and publication of (meta-)data are discussed, nor are updates or feedback mechanisms for annotations and comments discussed. The idea is that this text can be used in full or in part and that it will include further chapters and section updates as time goes by and as other communities begin using it. Some archives will read through much of these and see confirmation of what they have already been implementing; others {\textendash} especially the smaller institutions, such as private memory institutions {\textendash} will find this a low-key and hands-on introduction to help them in their efforts.

}, url = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01281442}, author = {Vanden Daelen, Veerle and Edmond, Jennifer and Links, Petra and Priddy, Mike and Tollar, Vaclav and Van Nispen, Annelies} } @conference {345, title = {Research infrastructures and archival inter-mediation}, booktitle = {Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world}, year = {2013}, month = {26-28 June 2013}, publisher = {APEx}, organization = {APEx}, address = {Dublin}, url = {http://www.apex-project.eu/index.php/events/dublin-conference/abstracts$\#$LinksSpeck}, author = {Speck, Reto and Links, Petra} } @conference {365, title = {Privacy in an international historical research environment: the example of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) {\textendash} project}, booktitle = {Public Conference at the Research Centre Information, Law and Society :{\textquotedblleft}Privacy at the crossroads of Sociology, Philosophy, History and Law{\textquotedblright} (CRIDS) }, year = {2012}, month = {24 Jan 2012}, author = {Luyten, Dirk} } @conference {469, title = {Kies voor de geesteswetenschapper! Naar een virtuele studiezaal langs de Digital Humanities}, booktitle = {Annual conference of the Koninklijke Vereniging van Archivarissen in Nederland/Royal Society of Dutch Archvists}, year = {2013}, month = {10 June 2013}, address = {Amsterdam}, url = {http://pt.slideshare.net/kvandagen/kies-voor-de-geesteswetenschapper}, author = {Links, Petra and Zandhuis, Ivo} } @conference {647, title = {International cooperation and collaboration / Sustaining digital archival infrastructures}, booktitle = {APEx: Collaboration and networking for a digital archival future. Sustainable perspectives through the Archives Portal Europe}, year = {2015}, month = {7-9 Sep 2015}, address = {Budapest}, abstract = {

We{\textquoteright}d propose to give a presentation related to the topics {\textquoteleft}International cooperation and collaboration{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}Sustaining digital archival infrastructures{\textquoteright}. In our paper we would reflect on the experiences of developing the EHRI portal from a human perspective: For EHRI connecting archives has been and still is about connecting people. The project ties together professionals in archiving, in information technology and history. Though this cooperation is not always easy and semantic incomprehension is often a risk, we think that it is this multidisciplinary collaboration between professionals working at various institutions and infrastructures that makes the project a success. In our contribution to the APEX conference we intent to illustrate our experiences with pragmatic examples and solutions taken from the first phase of EHRI (2010-2015) and challenges that we are likely to face during the continuation of the project (2015-2019).

}, url = {http://www.apex-project.eu/index.php/en/news-events/budapest-conference}, author = {Links, Petra and Speck, Reto} } @conference {489, title = {European Holocaust Research Infrastructure}, booktitle = {KVAN-days on Big Archives (Royal Society of Archivists in the Netherlands)}, year = {2014}, month = {17 June 2014}, address = {Assen, The Netherlands}, url = {http://www.kvan.nl/secties/studiedagen/programma-2014.php}, author = {Links, Petra and Veken, Tim} } @inbook {360, title = {The Past and the Future of Holocaust Research: From Disparate Sources to an Integrated European Holocaust Research Infrastructure}, booktitle = {Evolution der Informationsinfrastruktur: Forschung und Entwicklung als Kooperation von Bibliothek und Fachwissenschaft}, year = {2013}, pages = {157-77}, publisher = {Verlag Werner H{\"u}lsbusch}, organization = {Verlag Werner H{\"u}lsbusch}, address = {Gl{\"u}ckstadt}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3249/webdoc-39006}, url = {https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1405/1405.2407.pdf}, author = {Blanke, Tobias and Vanden Daelen, Veerle and Frankl, Michal and Kristel, Conny and Rodriguez, Kepa J. and Speck, Reto}, editor = {Rapp, Andrea and Lossau, Norbert and Neuroth, Heike} } @inbook {1121, title = {The elaboration of a privacy policy for the research portal of European Holocaust Research Infrastructure}, booktitle = {The Right to be forgotten vs the Right to Remember. Data Protection and Archiving in the Public Interest}, year = {2018}, pages = {97-110}, publisher = {VUBPRESS}, organization = {VUBPRESS}, address = {Brussels}, keywords = {Data, Holocaust, privacy}, isbn = {9789057187902}, author = {Luyten, Dirk} }