Archive portal

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An archive portal offers bundled information about archives and / or the possibility of researching the holdings of several archives at the same time. It is usually a web portal that bundles information on a specific topic and makes it accessible. But there are also portals in the narrower definition of IT that offer the integration of separate applications, processes and services.

Archive portals in Germany

Since September 24, 2014, the “ Archivportal-D ” is a central German archive portal. This was implemented as a sub-project of the German Digital Library (DDB) and offers archive-specific access on a national level. Information on archive facilities from all over Germany can be found in Archivportal-D. In addition, archival indexing services as well as digitized and digital archive material are made available for use. The content offered is gradually being expanded through the acquisition of new data suppliers. Scientists as well as all users of archives can do comprehensive research in the archive portal-D in all finding aids of the participating archiving institutions and display search results and possibly digitized archives from archives of various carriers. A nationwide archival research is thus made possible.

The BAM portal (joint portal for libraries, archives and museums), which was discontinued on June 30, 2015 in favor of the DDB, offered access to archived material without thematic restrictions .

The website of the Marburg Archive School provides an overview of the German state archives with address data, links to inventory overviews, online finding aids, archive laws, archival publications, etc. The MICHAEL project tries to record digital collections in museums and all other institutions that preserve cultural assets on a national and European level (without proof of the individual objects).

Regional and thematic archive portals

In many federal states there are now portals with information about the archives (addresses, websites, inventory overviews, etc.) in the respective federal state.

Research access to online finding aids (regional)

Comprehensive research access to the online finding aids of several archives is provided by e. B. the State Archives Baden-Württemberg, the Hessian State Archives, the State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the archives in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the main State Archives Saxony and Thuringia. The Federal Archives also enable research in its online finding aids (currently still using two different systems). The archives of the other federal states partly offer detailed overviews of holdings with descriptions of holdings, which can often be researched.

Research access to online finding aids (thematic)

  • The central database of personal papers of the Federal Archives enables comprehensive searches for personal papers , especially in archives, but also in libraries. The Kalliope network enables comprehensive searches for autographs and personal papers, especially in libraries, but also in archives. Both portals should be used in addition.
  • The portal to the SED and FDGB archives enables comprehensive research into SED and FDGB archives in the holdings of the Federal Archives and the state archives of the new federal states.

International archive portals

  • Alpine countries :

The Archive portal in the Alpenländer Working Group provides information about archives and their holdings in the geographical area of ​​the Alpenländer Working Group ( Arge Alp ) - Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Graubünden, Lombardy, Salzburg, St. Gallen, South Tyrol, Ticino, Tyrol, Trient and Vorarlberg - accessible.

  • Great Britain :

With Access to Archives (A2A) there is a national archive portal in which you can search for archives as well as in the online finding aids of archives.

  • Netherlands :

The national archive portal Archiefnet defines itself as a “search service for archives websites” and lists links to archives in the Netherlands and abroad. The archive portal archieven.nl lists over 13 million units of description from archives, museums and libraries in the Netherlands.

  • Switzerland:

On July 13, 2010, five Swiss archives opened a search portal at the addresses www.archivesonline.org, www.archives-online.org and www.archivportal.ch, which allows cross-archive research. The portal is supported by the state archives of the cantons of Zurich, Thurgau, Zug and Basel-Stadt as well as the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Social Archives , but now (as of 2019) it includes almost all major Swiss archives.

The repertory of the manuscript bequests in the libraries and archives of Switzerland , the directory of the economic holdings in public and private archives in Switzerland and Liechtenstein , the database of church holdings in Swiss archives and the database of sources on agricultural history of the archive for agricultural history also offer cross-archive access .

General

  • The Marburg Archive School maintains extensive, but uncommented, link lists to German and international archive portals .

German archive portals

Regional and thematic archive portals with information about archives (addresses, websites, inventory overviews, etc.)

Research access to online finding aids of several archives (regional)

Inventory overviews and finding aids

Inventory overviews only

Research access to online finding aids of several archives (thematic)

International archive portals

Alpine countries

Great Britain

Netherlands

Switzerland

literature

  • Angelika Menne-Haritz (ed.): Online finding aids, search engines and portals . Archive School Marburg, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-923833-68-7 (Contributions to the 6th Archive Science Colloquium of the Archive School Marburg).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press release from the German Digital Library
  2. ↑ Home - Archivportal-D. In: www.archivportal-d.de. Retrieved May 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Further strengthening for digital access to cultural heritage: BAM Consortium for German Digital Library. (PDF) (No longer available online.) German Digital Library, June 24, 2015, archived from the original on July 6, 2015 ; Retrieved on July 20, 2015 (joint press release of the German Digital Library and the BAM consortium). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bsz-bw.de
  4. ↑ Archive School Marburg ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archivschule.de
  5. ↑ http://www.archivesonline.org/
  6. ↑ http://www.archives-online.org/
  7. ↑ http://www.archivportal.ch/