Coron archive

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The Coronarchiv ( spelling : coronarchiv ) is a digital public history project initiated at the end of March 2020 by the Universities of Hamburg , Bochum and Gießen . The aim of the project is the ongoing collection, archiving , contextualization and long-term provision of personal memories , everyday experiences and found objects related to the " Corona crisis ". A documentation that is as diverse as possible should contribute to the plurality and diversity of future memories and stimulate them.

Content, structure and goal of the archive

The coronarchiv is a free and open online portal to which anyone can contribute and which is accessible to everyone. In principle, anything that is digital or that can be digitized can be uploaded: Texts such as diaries , "Corona collages ", letters, e-mails, poems, articles in newspapers and magazines, shopping lists , invitations ( e.g. for " Corona collages " ) Parties "), operational reports, notices, warning notices (e.g. for spatial distancing ), regulations as well as photos, drawings, images, videos, notices, menus, chats and social media posts through to voice messages, songs and readings.

The technical basis of the archive is the open source content management system Omeka S.

The online archive , which has been under construction since the end of March 2020 and will initially be in German, is to be expanded to include additional languages ​​in the future. We are also looking for voluntary "Corona archivists" who are actively involved in the project.

It is planned to make the collected digital and non-digital materials available to the cooperating museum partners after the end of the project.

Documenting different aspects of everyday life in a crisis is intended to serve future historical research and political education in particular .

Project management

Project managers of the archive are:

• Christian Bunnenberg , Professor of History Didactics at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Benjamin Roers, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
• Thorsten Logge , Professor of Public History at the University of Hamburg
• Nils Steffen, Research Associate in Public History at the University of Hamburg

Cooperation partner of the archive

• Körber Foundation / history competition of the Federal President

• Medical History Museum Hamburg
• Museum of Hamburg History
• State Museum Württemberg
• State Center for Political Education Hamburg

Similar projects and calls for collections

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

• The Pforzheim City Archives documents evidence of the Corona crisis.
• The archive of the district of Heilbronn calls for participation in the coronarchiv.
• Students at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg initiate a blog about the corona crisis.

Bavaria

• As a memory of the city and its history, the Munich City Museum collects how and what has changed in Munich during the coronavirus.
• The Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives documents the Corona crisis.
• The Fichtelgebirgsmuseum in Wunsiedel is planning an archive about the Corona period.
• The Coburg Puppet Museum is launching a collective appeal on everyday life for children in Corona times.
• The Erding Museum collects objects from the Corona crisis.
• The RegioWiki FürthWiki creates an online chronicle of the events in the urban area of ​​the independent city of Fürth , including an extensive collection of documents and images.

Berlin

• The Museum of European Cultures has launched the #CollectingCorona collective appeal.
• The Berlin Science Center for Social Research has started an online survey on the effects of the Corona crisis in everyday life.
• The Stadtmuseum Berlin is launching the "Berlin Now!"
• The Jewish Museum Berlin is launching the " Passover in Times of Corona" collection.
• Fritz Backhaus , director of the collections of the German Historical Museum , sees Corona as a new collection area for the museum.

Hesse

• The Historical Museum Frankfurt has called for the digital collection of Corona materials in relation to the city of Frankfurt am Main .
• The Darmstadt City Archive calls for participation in the coronarchiv.
• The city of Hanau calls for participation in the coronarchiv.

Lower Saxony

• The Verden district archive collects diary entries on the Corona crisis.

North Rhine-Westphalia

• The Cologne City Museum is looking for photos from the Corona crisis.
• The Neuss city archive would like to document the Corona period and asks for your help.

• The archive in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss collects documents about the pandemic.
• The archives in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district are calling for documentation of the corona pandemic.
• The LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History of the Rhineland Regional Association documents the effects of the corona pandemic on everyday regional cultures in the Rhineland.
• The Iron House Museum in Hattingen has set up a corona archive for images, videos and texts.
• The Lemgo city archive documents the corona crisis.

Rhineland-Palatinate

• The House of City History in Bad Kreuznach collects documents on everyday corona.

Saxony

• The city ​​archive of Chemnitz collects stories and experiences in connection with the corona pandemic.
• The university archive of the Technical University of Chemnitz participates in the coronarchiv.

Schleswig-Holstein

• The Kiel filmmaker Gerald Grote collects films that were made during the Corona crisis in Schleswig-Holstein. A documentation is to be created from this under the working title “ Feverish ”.

Thuringia

• The Jena City Museum , the Gotha City Archives and the Erfurt City Archives collect documents from the Corona era.
• The Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk Thuringia has started a photo collection campaign on everyday corona.

Austria

• The Wien Museum has started a “Corona collection project” in relation to the City of Vienna .
• The House of History Austria has called for collecting "in times of emergency".
• The Institute for Science and Technology Austria has started a "Corona diary" with CoKoNet as a Citizen Science project.
• The Technical Museum Vienna collects digital and technology in the state of emergency of the Corona crisis.
• The writer Daniela Egger keeps a corona diary on behalf of the Vorarlberg museum .
• The Nordico City Museum in Linz wants to capture the time of the corona crisis in pictures.
• The Steyr Working World Museum collects documents on changes in the working world during the Corona crisis.
• The museum in the Fronfeste has started a corona collection project.
• The city archive in the Rollett Museum calls on the population in Baden to keep objects to document the Corona crisis.
• The Grazmuseum is launching the "Corona" collection call .

Switzerland

• The University of Bern , the history portal Infoclio.ch , the Università della Svizzera italiana , the Swiss Social Archives and the Swiss Federal Archives collect images, texts, videos and posts from various social media channels on the corona crisis in the digital archive "corona-memory.ch" in Switzerland.
• The Swiss Social Archives collects suggestions, demands and position papers from Swiss parties, interest groups and think tanks on the corona crisis.
• The Historical Museum Lucerne collects photos of things from everyday corona.
• The Aargauer Zeitung has been reporting in a dossier since March 20, 2020 about everyday corona in the region.

Luxembourg

• The Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg has set up the online platform #covidmemory.

Ireland

• The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland's Heritage Center provides experience from doctors, nurses and other professionals in the healthcare system .

Web links

• Website of the coronarchiv
• Danny Kringiel: Historian project "Corona archive" How do we want to remember the corona crisis? , spiegel.de, April 5, 2020
• Christian Koller / Ulrike Schelling: Digital Social Archive: Archiving the Corona Crisis , in: Social Archive Info 3 (2020). Pp. 6-9
• History and the Corona Pandemic H-Soz-Kult , March 30, 2020
• Dossier: Logbook "Corona, viewed from the humanities". A discussion with Jürgen Zimmerer and Georgios Chatzoudis - created on April 16, 2020 by Judith Wonke L.ISA - The science portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
• Research on the corona pandemic RatSWD - Council for Social and Economic Data
• A Journal of the Plague Year: an Archive of CoVid19
• Mapping Public History Projects about COVID 19
• Audra DS Burch: What Historians Will See When They Look Back on the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020 The New York Times, April 15, 2020
• Museums Scramble to Document the Pandemic, Even as It Unfolds The New York Times, March 31, 2020
• Oya Y. Rieger: Documenting the COVID-19 Pandemic. Archiving the Present for Future Research Ithaka S + R, April 6, 2020
• The Covid-19 Oral History Project IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute, 2020
• Corona Collective: Documenting Atlanta's Response to Covid-19 Atlanta History Center, 2020

Individual evidence

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