Member of EHRI Work Package 17 (Standards and Guidelines) and 19 (Data Integration Infrastructure)

Developer at DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services), the Netherlands

My first involvement with EHRI was on standards and guidelines, and how to translate those into a datamodel. The first step of getting used to the terminology took a while, because although I work at a digital archive (DANS), I had never set foot in an actual archive or spent time with a card catalogue.

One of the most important outcomes of the EHRI project will be an online portal offering researchers and the interested public access to in-depth information on Holocaust related archives and documentation. The EHRI portal is the culmination of much of the research undertaken in EHRI, and after almost four years of intense work, it is now in the final stages of development. Reto Speck (KCL and NIOD) is co-ordinating the development of the EHRI portal; here he provides an overview of its aims and progress.

EHRI workshop at the Shoah Memorial, Paris

held on Monday, 2 June 2014

On June 2nd, the Shoah Memorial of Paris (Mémorial de la Shoah) successfully hosted one of the EHRI Regional Workshops under the title “From Dispersed and Fragmented Holocaust Sources to an Integrated European Research Infrastructure”. The main purpose for this workshop was to present the work of EHRI in France.

19-21 May, 2014. Krakow, Poland

'In particular we would like to see the expansion of EHRI's activities and the widening of its partnership in Eastern Europe. All this of course in order to include new material on the Holocaust and enable an integrated approach to the history of the Holocaust as a European phenomenon.'  Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of Research and Innovation, European Commission, at the conference.