ICARUS-Meeting #17 | Transparency - Accessibility – Dialogue. How a creative archival landscape can effect society - Martin Bjersby: The National Archival Database
Martin Bjersby
The National Archival Database
ICARUS-Meeting #17 | Transparency - Accessibility – Dialogue. How a creative archival landscape can effect society
23–25 May 2016, Krukmakarens hus (The Potter´s house), Mellangatan 21, 621 56 Visby / The Regional State Archives in Visby, Broväg 27, 621 41 Visby, Sweden
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4. The National Archival Database of
Sweden
An information system on archives, developed by the
National Archives of Sweden
Basic idea since the beginning:
In a single context search information about
archives and collections, kept at the archives,
libraries and museums around Sweden
7. Content
• Information on more than 185 000 archival holdings,
from 155 Swedish institutions
– National Archives and the Regional State archives
– Municipal Archives
– Popular Movement Archives
– Business Archives
– University Archives
– Local History Archives
• Information on more than 185 000 archival holdings, from 155
Swedish institutions
– National Archives and the Regional State archives
– Municipal Archives
– Popular Movement Archives
– Business Archives
– University Archives
– Local History Archives
• Content:
– Finding aids
– Authority records (creators)
– Links to digitized archive materials
– Contact details for institutions
8. National archives search service
• NAD’s national overview
• The Digital Research Room
– 40 searchable indexes (including 20 million census records)
– 90 million digital images
• The Catalogue of Medieval charters
• Database of Medieval book fragments
• The Dictionary of Swedish National Biography
and more
9. How to participate in NAD
• Uploading files from the local archival information
system
or
• Register data into a web form
14. Our challenges
• More participating institutions
• Make the database searchable through Google
• Find solutions so that more institutions can display their
digitized collections
• An automated function for data transfer to the Archives
Portal Europe
• Attractive, user friendly and functional website