Presentatie 'Linking and Enriching Archival Collections in the Digital Age – the Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen Project' van Edwin Klijn (programmamanager Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen) tijdens de internationale conferentie 'Tracing and Documenting Victims of Nazi Persecution: History of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Context' van de International Tracing Service (ITS) op 9 november 2018 [panel 4, 11.30-13.30].

1. Edwin Klijn, International Conference
Bad Arolsen, October 8th/9th 2018
Linking and
Enriching Archival Collections in the Digital
Age – the Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen Project

3. Archive digitization in Europe (2015)
• On average 55% of the archive collections has been catalogued
in a collection database
• On average 13% of the archive collections has been digitally
reproduced
Source: ENUMERATE survey 2015

4. We have only just begun…

5. Network War Collections
• Since 2010
• Cooperation of 73 organizations with WWII-collections
• Topic: WWII in the Netherlands
• Aim: increased digital visibility and re-use of collection data
• Perspective: archives, museums, research institutes, etc (+- 470)
• Method: linking and enriching collection data

6. Why linking and connecting?
• To help users to find their own ways
• To create an added information value
• To contextualize individual collections

7. Why collections?

8. Why collections?

9. WWII collections in the Netherlands

14. Fulltext access to archives

15. The engine…WWII thesaurus

16. Lessons learned
Source: Beeldbank WO2

17. 1. There is quality in quantity

18. 2. Computers can be friendly

19. Source: photo album 'Centraal Archievendepot Justitie'; Dutch
National Archives

23. 3. Standardisation and persistency are key!
Approximately 1943
21/12/1943
3.4.43
America
Holland
Underground
Resistance
http://collectie.atlasvanstolk.nl/data_nl.asp?startc=1&q0=1083
69&subj=1&bron=g
https://www.geldersarchief.nl/bronnen/archieven?mivast=37&
mizig=284&miadt=37&miaet=14&micode=1560&minr=350818
6&miview=ldt

25. 4. KISS-principle
Source: Beeldbank WO2

26. 5. We do NOT OWN the collections,
we just happen to manage them

27. 6. Cooperate! Claim your niche online and
connect to others

28. www.oorlogsbronnen.nl
@Oorlogsbronnen
info@oorlogsbronnen.nl