There's still time to let us know in case you wish to speak at our upcoming Convention in Novi Sad (5-7 June). Name, affiliation and short abstract (up to 500 words) covering one of the following topics may be sent to our organisers ljiljana.radovac@gmail.com and cc to dragana.katic21@gmail.com:

1. Minority Communities in Europe – Archival Materials and Other Sources
2. Archives and Societies – An Analog Archivist in a Digital World
3. Conservation and Restoration of Paper and Parchment – a Case Study

Applications can be submitted until today, 15 April 2024 end-of-day.

In case you are operatoring data repositories (= infrastructures to store and manage digital files and their corresponding metadata such as digital archives, data collections, virtual research infrastructures, etc.) holding 3D data, you are invited to participate in this survey (still open until 18 April 2024).

This mapping excercise is a joint effort of Time Machine Organisation (TMO) and the Europeana Initiative seeking to better understand the existing landscape of digital European data infrastructures facilitating the storage of 3D cultural heritage datasets/digital objects. The questions address various topics covering metadata standards, the quality of 3D data, licensing for 3D data, and how the data can be accessed or shared and by whom.

By answering these questions you will help to better understand how 3D data is being managed and which will contribute to shaping the future of the common European data space for cultural heritage that is currently taking more and more shape.

The team of the German Film Museum (DFF) as coordinator of the EU-funded project "DE-BIAS - Detecting and cur(at)ing harmful language in cultural heritage collections" will host an online webinar aimed at the cultural heritage sector in German-speaking countries. The event will take place on 17 April 2024 (14:00-15:30 CEST) and intends to dive into the topic of discriminating language in archival records and how to deal with that. 

The DFF is closely cooperating with the Jewish community, laying a focus on anti-Semitic and Nazi-era terms. The upcoming webinar aims to provide insights into the possibilities and challenges of collaborative work and at the same time invites participants to contribute their own use cases and experiences and to discuss the challenges and needs of cultural institutions when dealing with discriminatory language.

The webinar will be held in German.

In the City Archive of St. Gallen, as part of a research project in cooperation with the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Canton of St. Gallen, the University of Zurich and private foundations, the correspondence letters safeguarded in the archives of St. Gallen are now openly available as digital edition of images with full text. 

The first part of the edition “Letter traffic of the city of St. Gallen 1400–1650” has already gone online and can be viewed here. Additionally, every first Friday of the month the team will select a highlight "missive of the month" and present it in more detail.

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