25-27.09.2024: »Future-ready? Data quality and data security in museum and archive«
This year, the EDV days are dedicated to the spectrum of data quality and data security in museum and archives. Successful development, preservation and research of cultural goods is only possible in the long term on the basis of high-quality specialist information, whose lasting protection can only be ensured by appropriate systems and strategies. Data quality and data security play an essential role in museum and archive work. On the one hand, in the case of the EDV days 2024, we illuminate specific possibilities for generating technically improved, deepening and thus future-oriented development data, for example by data qualification or the use of controlled vocabulary. On the other hand, the conference will focus on current challenges in the field of data security, which are becoming increasingly relevant in view of the digital transformation processes. Information security and data protection are also indispensable in museums and archives. Two practical workshops complete the programme. The lectures on Thursday and Friday will be held in parallel Livestream transfer. The workshops are excluded on Wednesday. The stream is freely accessible via the EDV tags website. When registering for the live stream, the link will be sent to you by email a few days before the event. Further information on the programme and the venue as well as the registration form can be found on Conference website. We look forward to your participation! Posted on 29.07.2024
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24.9.2024: Online lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner with panel discussion. Cutting the lectures on our YouTube channel.
Around 200 archives of Bavarian Jewish communities and rabinates have been held in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) held in Jerusalem. These documents are important and widely used sources for all historical research on Jewish history in Bavaria and Germany. The accessibility of stocks via the Internet has therefore long been an urgent wish for local and regional research. On the initiative of the commissioner of the Bavarian State Government for Jewish life and against anti-Semitism, for remembrance work and historical heritage and with generous financial support by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art, these documents have been digitized with the CAHJP since 2023 in a cooperation project of the Bavarian State Archives. The aim is to open a free online access to all documents about the finder database of the Bavarian State Archives. With 30 digitized municipal archives and more than 100,000 digital images, an important milestone is achieved in this major project running until 2028. Most of the 19th Centuries already offer fascinating insights into the diverse history of Judaism in Franken, Schwaben and the Upper Palatinate. The scope of the individual municipal archives is very different. Many stocks consist of only a few files, others of 200, some sometimes even more than 500 archives. The Jewish community of Fürth, one of the oldest and most important Bavarians, forms the most extensive stock with over 1,000 files. Many othe
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17.07.2024: State Archives as a resource for provenance research
Within the framework of the practical seminar, the most important traditions are presented at the central government level (in the Bavarian Main State Archive) and in the regional area (exemplarily in the State Archive Munich). Provenance research serves to develop object and collection biographies and thus contextualizes the origin of an object. Although the object itself is initially examined, it is usually not enough to determine who the (art) work has heard in the course of time without doubt. In addition to museum documents such as sales books, files and official books are often indispensable in public archives in order to reconstruct the provenance. Many of these documents do not use the object, but are used for persons who have been deprived of assets. Within the framework of the practical seminar, the most important traditions are presented at the central administrative level (in the Bavarian Main State Archive) and in the regional area (exemplarily in the State Archive Munich) – from the tax and withdrawal files of the NS authorities to the reparation files from the post-war period to relevant documents of the ministries and large museums such as the Bavarian State Painting Collections. In practical exercises, research strategies are to be communicated. Comments on the legal framework and the terms of use in the Bavarian State Archives round off the event. Referencing Maria Stehr M. A.is an expert in enquiries from provenance researchers in the department II Ne
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24.06.2024: Conference presentations: Original maintenance in practice – Prevention of damage and emergency in archives and libraries
In cooperation with the Coordination body for the preservation of written cultural goods (KEK) to the event "Originalerhalt in Practice - Damage and Emergency Prevention in Archives and Libraries" on Monday, 24. June 2024 invited to the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv at 10 a.m. The occasion is the presentation of the band „Schäden an Archiv- und Bibliotheksgut sehen und klassifikation“ by Ann-Kathrin Eisenbach and Katrin Marth, which you will find here free download can. Participation in the event is free of charge, but registration for participation on site is necessary due to limited capacity. Please register with full name and specify your service until 19. June 2024 at poststelle@gda.bayern.de The program for the event can be found under 'Family files' or here download directly. The conference presentations on the event can be held at the Homepage under technical information - conservation or directly here will be downloaded: Dr. Katrin Marth, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: From the creative description to usable information. Updating the damage disaster of the Bavarian State Archives Dr. Laura Scherr, Director-General of the Bavarian State Archives: Planning of conservation measures, remedying and preventing damage Dr. Ursula Hartwieg, coordinating body for the preservation of written cultural goods (KEK): Funding possibilities: The coordinating body for the preservation of the written cultural property (KEK) Ann-Kathrin Eisenbach M.A., M
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