Events

Oct
7
Tue
Regular’s table of the genealogists of the Mostviertle of Lower Austria @ GH Voitiech
Oct 7 @ 18:00 – 19:00

Presentation (in German) by Thomas Aigner (president of ICARUS) on

“Matricula and Monasterium as essential sources for family research”

The presentation will be given at the “Bildungs- und Heimatwerk Niederösterreich (BHW)” which offers charitable education for adults in regional and local education centres. Find out more about the BHW’s aims and objectives here (in German).

Please click here for more details on the event.

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Nov
12
Wed
Seminar on online resources for historians @ Biblioteca della Società Napoletana di Storia Patria
Nov 12 @ 09:00 – 17:00

Medieval CastleGiovanni Vitolo and Antonella Ambrosio (University of Naples Federico II) will hold a seminar titled “Le risorse in rete: materiale documentario dal IX al XIX secolo e inventari di archivi dei paesi europei” for the PhD candidates of the History Department of the University of Naples Federico II.

The lecture is part of the didactic activities within the ENArC project and will focus on Monasterium.net.

Nov
26
Wed
ICARUS-Lecture @ The Head Office of State Archives
Nov 26 @ 11:00 – 12:00

The presentations within this ICARUS-Lecture will be in Czech and Polish. The programme is available in Polish here.

Language: Czech and Polish

Jitka Křečková: Zkušenosti Národního archivu České republiky s digitalizací a zpřístupňováním archiválií v rámci mezinárodních projektů

Marie Ryantová: Využití digitálních kopií při výuce: farářské relace pražského arcibiskupství z roku 1677 a jejich edice

Feb
24
Tue
Archival Pedagogy in Germany and the German Archives Portal @ Budapest City Archives
Feb 24 @ 10:30 – 15:00

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10.30–11.30

DR. JULIA RIEDEL (Archivist, Historical Archive of the City of Cologne) – Experiences in Archival Pedagogy in Germany

11.30–12.30

CHRISTINA WOLF (Department head of Digitalisation, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart) – Presentation of the German Archival Portal

13.00–14.00

Lunch break

14.00–14.30

DR. JULIA RIEDEL – Short report about the situation of Historical Archive of the City of Cologne. Background: In March 2009 the archive building collapsed. Julia Riedel will report about the recovery and restauration of the archival documents and about the plans for the future.

14.30-15.00

Discussion

The event is free of charge and registration is not needed.

 

Mar
2
Mon
Script is everywhere! And it speaks of our history … @ Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Mar 2 – May 31 all-day

Script is everywhere! And it speaks of our history …

This year’s Palaeography course (March-May 2015) for the Master Degree students in “Organization and Administration of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage” will provide an overview on the evolution of Latin Script and show it as a tangible part of our cultural heritage waiting to be discovered, understood, protected and valued. Moreover the lectures will trace a path from traditional to new digital methodologies by using the digital archives available on the international platform Monasterium.Net and by actively engaging the students by employing Monasterium’s tool MOM-Ca.

The course is organized in the context of ENArC – European Network on Archival Cooperation (EU Culture Programme 2007-2013) and co:op – Community as Opportunity. The creative Archives’ and Users’ network (Creative Europe. Support Programme for Europe’s Cultural and Creative Sectors from 2014).

Oct
15
Thu
Monasterium workshop @ University of Hradec Králové
Oct 15 @ 15:00 – 17:00

The Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové (CZ) and ICARUS kindly invite all students of Archive Studies to take part in a workshop focused on Europe’s biggest virtual charters archive 

Monasterium

 

Mag. Daniel Jeller © Andrea Siegl

Mag. Daniel Jeller
© Andrea Siegl

The workshop will take place in room B 11 and will be led by Mag. Daniel Jeller from Vienna (AT). He is a historian and responsible for IT, digitization and the Monasterium portal at ICARUS. Next to his work he is programming for Digital Humanities projects and does research into the cultural implications of digitization.

All participants will be given information about the database, its origin and development. The aim of the workshop is to teach the participants how to work effectively and creatively with the database, including practical exercises.

Link: www.monasterium.net

 

This workshop is being organized within the EU-funded project co:op – community as opportunity. The creative archives‘ and users‘ network.

 

Dec
18
Fri
New times, new use-cases: digital repositories in archives and libraries @ Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Dec 18 @ 09:00 – 12:00

University workshop

New times, new use-cases: digital repositories in archives and libraries

CaptureThis workshop aims at describing how different meta data schemes and OAI-PMH protocols can be integrated into one management system. It will furthermore analyze data from Europeana (EDM) in view of how it can be applied to archives and libraries within the context of LInked Open Data.

Further information here (in Spanish)

 

May
4
Wed
The Archival Military System in the Community of Madrid @ Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación (UCM) Sala de Conferencias
May 4 @ 09:00 – 14:00

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.

Click on the image below for more details on the programme:

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Nov
15
Tue
ICARUS HR lecture I @ University of Zagreb
Nov 15 @ 17:00 – 19:00

Lecture series “Archive topics” – All about university archives!

Organized by ICARUS HR, the University of Zagreb and ICARUS within the EU-funded project co:op, this first lecture in a series of lectures yet to come on “Archive topics” intents to inform archivists and information professionals, experts in the cultural, scientific and educational institutions, students and the academic community, and anyone else interested in contemporary international trends, projects and practices in the world of archives.

anneKeynote speaker Dr. Anne J. Gilliland is Professor and Director of the Archival Studies specialization in the Department of Information Studies, Director of the Center for Information as Evidence, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also the director of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), a global collaborative effort amongst academic institutions that seeks to promote state-of-the-art in scholarship in Archival Studies.

View progamme

The event hast also be announced on the website of the Croatian Ministry of Culture.

Sep
7
Thu
Archive Topics: e.ARH.si project @ Sveučilišni računarski centar u Zagrebu
Sep 7 @ 10:00 – 13:00

This lecture of the lecture series “Archive Topics” is dedicated to the Slovenian e-archives project e-ARH.si. The project e-ARH.si is founded by European Union within the framework of the Operative Programme Competitiveness and cohesion 2014-2020 and it’s run by the Slovenian government and all public archives.

Experts from the Archives of Republic of Slovenia will present strategies, plans and activities regarding the development and implementation of e-archives in the Slovenian public archives service. The programme is open to the public and will be held in University Computer Centre in Zagreb, starting at 10 am.

Programm available here.