The international workshop “Historical Sources Just One Click Away. The Issue of Digital Editions and Accessing Historical Sources in Virtual Space” convenes a wide range of international experts from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria to discuss current affairs and future perspectives of the digital Humanities, virtual archives, online archival sources, digital approaches towards archival documents and digitization procedures.
The workshop is in English and takes place at the Faculty of Arts, Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies of the Masaryk University in Brno.
The programme is available here.
Workshop
Towards a digital edition of the charters of the abbey S. Maria della Grotta with Monasterium.Net
Within the project ENArC – European Network on Archival Cooperation (EU Culture Programme 2007-2013) and the project L’edizione digitale e cartacea dei documenti dell’Italia Meridionale in Monasterium.Net, sponsored by the Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II (Fonds Contribution for International Agreements, A.F. 2014), the research group on the documental patrimony of S. Maria della Grotta started the digital edition in Monasterium.Net of the abbey’s 13th century documents.
The aim is to test for the first time in Europe Monasterium’s software MOM-Ca for the creation of a digital edition.
The kick-off workshop will take place at the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici in Naples and the participants will be
- Antonella Ambrosio (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II),
- Claudia Cuminale (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose “S. Pietro” di Caserta)
Maria Rosaria Falcone (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II), - Francesco Lerra (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II),
- Paola Massa (Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza), V
- Vera Schwarz-Ricci (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II) and
- Georg Vogeler (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz).
Have a look at the programme here! More on the edition project here.
co:op project at workshop on innovation policies for Cultural Heritage Institutions in Budapest (HU)
The co:op project will be presented at the National Library in Budapest (HU) within a workshop that deals with the question of what kind of policies can be applied to cultural institutions in order to best prepare them for cooperation with citizens and their organisations in research on cultural heritage.
In this context the opportunities of the topotheques as cultural heritage preserving tools, run by citizens themselves and as vital part of the co:op activities, will be introduced to the workshop participants.
The workshop is being organized by Civic Epistemologies – Development of a Roadmap for Citizen Researchers in the Digital Culture.
Please click here to find out more about the workshop’s background and the detailed programme.
General map of the Kingdom of Hungary, 1804-1810
Portrait LIPSZKY János
This exhibition is dedicated to LIPSZKY János (1766-1826) – a hussar officer known for his cartographic accomplishments – celebrating his 250th birth anniversary.
Both, the exhibition and the accompanying flash conference are jointly organized by the National Széchényi Library and the National Archives of Hungary.
Flash conference
As part of the opening ceremony, the experts from the NSzL, the National Archives of Hungary, the Institute and Museum of Military History, the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and the Eötvös Loránd University will present their relevant research.
Conference language: Hungarian
More information on the programme of the opening ceremony can be found here.
The National Archives of Hungary organizes a round table within the EU-funded project co:op (community as opportunity) between archivists and users aiming at exchanging valuable experiences and improve team work between archival experts and the user commnuity.
The event will be held in Hungarian, registration is kindly reqeusted.
The Seminar “The Archival Military System in the Community of Madrid” aims to raise awareness towards the panorama of military archives that are based in the Community of Madrid.
To that end, it will be introduced with a lecture on the Archival Military System with respect to the Spanish State. Then there will be two round tables; one focused about central and general archives, and the other historical archives.
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Within the ICARUS-Meeting #18 taking place from 17-19 October 2016 in Budapest, hosted by the Budapest City Archives (HU) and co-organized by the National Archives of Hungary within the EU-funded project “community as opportunity (co:op)“, this international conference on “Hungaricana”, the common website of Hungarian Archives, Museums and Libraries, will give valuable insights into the Hungarian Archival Landscape.
“Hungaricana” is operated by the Library of the Parliament and aims to give access to the cultural heritage of Hungary through a single online access point. Amongst the over 100 content providers are also the Budapest City Archives, the National Archives of Hungary as well as the National Museum of Hungary.
More information on the workshop and the meeting is available here.
(c) Budapest City Archives
Round table at the City Archives Budapest
Within the ICARUS-Meeting #18 and the 4th partner meeting of the EU-funded project “community as opportunity (co:op)“, a round table will bring experts in the archival field and archive users to the table, opening the possibilities to exchange experiences and perspectives.
Click here for more information on the City Archives Budapest.