You are cordially invited to an EHRI workshop at DANS, in The
Hague, the Netherlands, on 17 November 2015 on the topic of workflows that
archives use to catalogue and publish information about their holdings.
The workshop aims to get input from people who are part of the
cataloguing workflow.

Topics

How do you make people more aware about your archival holdings?
Is it difficult and time-consuming to reach your public digitally? Would
you like to communicate to your website users that you are part of a
digital infrastructure and the advantages this brings? Are you part of a
project that wants your institution to provide metadata but you run
into technical problems and need specialist skills?

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) would like
to help archives to publish their finding aids in ways that are useful
for people and for computers; after all computers are now users too!

Archives and research infrastructures

Many archives already publish their finding aids and holdings
guides on their websites for people to browse before they plan a visit
to the archive. However, we are seeing a change in how researchers, in
particular, wish to find and use information for their research
questions; across many sources, in many languages, and many locations.
To address the needs of researchers there are increasingly many
specialised research infrastructures, like DARIAH, EHRI, CENDARI, and
other national and international projects, that aggregate information
about archival holdings. It is important for an archive to manage how it
handles requests from, and provides information to, the research and
data infrastructures, in a sustainable manner that doesn’t get in the
way of an archive’s core business. Equally, it is important for the
research infrastructures to receive current and relevant information to
support their communities of researchers.

Digitally joined-up world

This is the first of a number of small scale workshops and
interviews EHRI will hold to find out more about the workflows that
archivists and cataloguers in collection holding institutions use to
catalogue and publish information about their holdings. This knowledge
helps us to create tools that can interfere with and improve these
workflows and provide the extra steps to publish finding aids in this
digitally joined-up world.

The workshops will be interactive and
the information that you provide will help to define the requirements
for the tools. Hopefully it will also help you to evaluate your own
workflows and learn about those of other archives.

To register for this workshop (before November 9) and for questions please email: ben.companjen@dans.knaw.nl.

Lunch will be provided, and for those staying overnight before the meeting, EHRI organizes a workshop dinner.

Further details on how to get to DANS and where to stay will be forwarded to attendees after registration.

Presentations and discussion will be in English.

The workshop starts at 10:00h and ends around 16:30h. The final programme will be published shortly.