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ARNOLD,
Kerstin; BREDENBERG, Karin; JAGODZINSKI, Silke
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Curriculum
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Kerstin Arnold holds a Master
each in Communication Studies and Information
Management. She is
currently doing her doctoral thesis next to the work at the Federal
Archives of Germany for the Archives Portal Europe – network of excellence
(APEx) project. After working in Public Relations
and as a freelance editor for an online programme on books, movies and
theatre, she started working at the Federal Archives in 2005 in the context of
an edition of the minutes of the weekly meetings of the German federal
government. Since then Kerstin has been working at the Federal Archives in
several projects on standardisation of (encoded) archival descriptions and
online access to archival material, including APEx
and its predecessor APEnet. In the project’s
context she is leading the work package on Interoperability and she acts as
the APEx Technical Coordinator.
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Karin Bredenberg graduated with a Bachelor of Science in
Computer Engineering (programming C#) from the Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH) in Stockholm 2006. She currently holds a position as an IT
architect at the Swedish National Archives (SNA) where she has worked for
the past eight years. Karin’s main focus is on the creation of Swedish adaptions of international archival metadata standards.
From 2008-2010, she worked with archivists from around the world on the
development of EAC-CPF, a standard for encoding archival authority records.
She currently serves as member of the Society of American Archivists Schema
Development Team as well as a member of the Society of American Archivists
Technical Subcommittee on EAC and EAD and as a member of the PREMIS
Editorial Committee. Since 2011, Karin is part of the Swedish project
E-archiving and registration, eARD, and has
started participating as a standards specialist in the European project
E-ARK in 2014.
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Silke
Jagodzinski holds a Diploma in Archival Science
and a Master in History and Cultural Science. After five years as member of
a digital history project, she worked as traditional archivist at the
Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. During this
time she started to become a digital archivist and got advanced training in
digital technology related to Information Science. Before Silke started to work for the APEx
project at the Federal Archives of Germany in 2012, she gathered
experiences with several XML technologies and archival standards in a
company for data conversion. Within the APEx
project, Silke is involved in most of the Work
Packages and has a focus on archival standards and metadata tasks.
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Title:
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Archives Portal Europe - A
Challenge of Harmonisation and Outreach
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Brief summary:
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The APEx project developing the Archives
Portal Europe is in its final year. The session sheds a light on strengths
of the portal, its network and developments to come. It starts with an
overview of standards used and experiences in implementation, presents
interoperability in its various shades, and ends with the Archives Portal
Europe Foundation.
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Content:
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The Archives Portal Europe is providing a central platform for
publication of and research in archival material based on standardisation
and tools, but also for professional exchange of knowledge and experiences.
Creating such a portal with information from all European countries demands
the application of a common set of information. The benefits of using
standards can be clearly shown through the work carried out so far in the APEnet and APEx projects. One
of the keys has been the use of formats based on the archival standards
from ICA. This
part will elaborate which and how standards are used and show the overall
impact of using standards in the portal.
Whereas presenting different traditions of archival descriptions within one
archives portal can be solved with the ICA standards, it is still a challenge to
share these information with cross-domain portals
like Europeana and with other solutions, which
focus on humanists and researchers by serving virtual research environments
or exchange data with national archives portals. This part will show
different aspects of interoperability challenge in terms of technical and
content related questions.
The activities of the current APEx project shall
be continued in form of a foundation, which will find its place in the
midst of already existing bodies and organisations in Europe’s
archival domain such as the EBNA and EURBICA. With the final year of the
project also focusing on strengthening the growing network around the
Archives Portal Europe, the portal and the foundation are aiming at
becoming a solid partner for archival institutions all over the continent
in the fields that the APEx project and its
predecessor APEnet already have proven to be a
good anchor.
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Scientific contribution:
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The Archives Portal Europe with the contribution of a large number
of collaborating partners in currently 32 countries all over the continent
will have a strong impact on the way standards are used and content is
published as well as on the way content can be accessed and used. This
already has been proven with the experiences of the partners so far, when
providing information to the portal and thereby not only enhancing the
central application, but also taking advantage of the portal and its tools
as a way to improve their information for local use. The work also includes
the quest to appreciate and analyse new (technical) developments in the
digital cultural heritage community for possible implementation in the
portal as a central and joint access point. The Archives Portal Europe is
therefore a matter of strong concern to the archival domain as a whole.
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Keywords:
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Archives Portal Europe; ICA
standards; Interoperability; Networking; Sustainability
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