Archives, science and research have always been working closely together. In addition, archives understand themselves as service providers for the public and thus also for research. The digi-tal change today opens up new opportunities for cooperation on both sides, combined with new challenges. What are the ways in which the archives are to engage in cooperation with research?


New paths are, for example, archives that use the narrowing of interested lay people within the framework of Citizen Science, but at the same time have to ask themselves about the limits of this form of cooperation. New Zealand also enters the cultural institutions that connect themselves to technology affinities and culture-enhancing communities within the framework of the cultural hackathon “Coding da Vinci”. And finally, can programs learn to recognize and read manuscripts independently and thus complement or even replace one of the core competencies of the historical aid sciences?


The 11. Bayerische Archivtag, about 200 archivists from Bavaria and the neighbouring regions from 22 to 23. March 2019 in Coburg meet.
Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber was able to be won for the presentation on 23 March 2019. As Chairman of the Association of Historians and Historians of Germany, she is in regular dialogue with archivists. This is also the title of her re-ferat "The forgotten memory?" Archive and science in dialogue”. The employees of the Adels- und Privatarchive, municipal archives, Kirchenarchive and archives at universities and scientific institutions as well as the communicative archive maintenance will meet on the day before.


On the evening of 22 March, Bernd Sibler, MdL, Minister of State for Science and Art at Coburger Rathaussaal dhe awarded “Bayerische Janus 2019” to Mr. Mayor of the City of Augsburg Dr. Kurt Gribl. The city archive Augsburg owes its great personal commitment to accommodation in a new, modern and appropriate archive building as well as the appropriate equipment with personnel and resources.
The prize, a ceramic sculpture that refers to the double-headed Roman god and symbolizes with the intermediary of the archives between past and future, has been created by the artist Klaus Dorrmann from Ahorn.

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