WRITTEN SOURCES OF SLOVAK AND AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES ONLINE MEMORY WITHOUT BORDERS THE ETC PROJECT CRARC A multiplier for cross border cooperation of Slovak and Austrian Archives www.crossborderarchives.eu WRITTEN SOURCES OF SLOVAK AND AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES ONLINE

PROJECT PARTNERS

PROJECT PARTNERS LEADPARTNER → ICARUS International Centre for Archival Research PARTNER 1 → THE AUSTRIAN STATE ARCHIVES PARTNER 2 → THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC The State Archive in Bratislava & the Archives of the Capital City of Bratislava PARTNER 3 → NETZWERK GESCHICHTE NÖ In cooperation with the Lower Austrian State Archive

DURATION February 2012 June 2014

Creating the Future www.sk-at.eu FINANCING Creating the Future www.sk-at.eu ETC: Cross border cooperation programme Slovak Republic – Austria 2007 - 2013 European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 85% National Co - Financing / Equity Capital 15% Overall Budget ~ € 800.000 PARTNERS

CROSSING THE BORDER OUR GOALS FREE & UNLIMITED AVAILABILITY WRITTEN SOURCES OF SLOVAK AND AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES ONLINE OUR GOALS FREE & UNLIMITED AVAILABILITY → EASY ACCESS TO HISTORICAL SOURCES → RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE SHARED HISTORICAL & CULTURAL ROOTS → MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS (IN TOURISM, SCHOOLS, ADULT EDUCATION, FOR EXPERTS, HISTORICAL SOCIETIES & HOBBY RESEARCHERS etc.)

CROSSING THE BORDER OUR GOALS CLOSE COOPERATION WRITTEN SOURCES OF SLOVAK AND AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES ONLINE OUR GOALS CLOSE COOPERATION → OVERCOMING THE NATIONAL BARRIERS WITHIN ARCHIVAL WORK

CROSSING THE BORDER OUR GOALS INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING WRITTEN SOURCES OF SLOVAK AND AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES ONLINE OUR GOALS INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING → COMMON AND BORDERLESS WORKING OPPORTUNITIES → COMMON HANDLING OF CHALLENGES WITHIN THE ARCHIVAL WORK

BORDER AREA AUSTRIA – SLOVAK REPUBLIC CROSSING THE BORDER BORDER AREA AUSTRIA – SLOVAK REPUBLIC

THE INITAL SITUATION → WIDESPREAD & DECENTRALIZED STORAGE IN NATIONAL, CLERICAL AND REGIONAL ARCHIVES → LIMITED ACCESS → UNDERSTANDABILITY OF LANGUAGE → READABILITY OF ANCIENT SCRIPTS

THE INITIAL SITUATION → PROVIDERS OF ANALOG DOCUMENTS BECOME PROVIDERS OF DIGITAL MATERIALS → UNIQUE & VERSATILE CHARACTERS OF WRITTEN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS Different materials & non-uniform sizes / formats Conservation status Historical contents → TECHNICAL QUESTIONS Scanner? Databases?

ACTIVITIES AUSTRIA → MILITARY CHURCH REGISTERS → REGISTER BOOKS OF CATHOLIC PARISHES → „FRANZISZEISCHES KATASTER“

ACTIVITIES SLOVAK REPUBLIC → DOCUMENTS OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATION IN BRATISLAVA → WRITTEN SOURCES OF HISTORICAL COUNTIES IN THE BORDER AREA SK-AT → COLLECTION OF CHURCH BOOKS (1616-1895) → SMALLER COLLECTIONS FROM OTHER ARCHIVES

CULTURAL AKTIVITIES WORKSHOPS FINAL CONFERENCE Modern face of archival science – archival documents on-line 5 June 2012 University Library Bratislava Austrias Archives in Europe 17 - 18 October 2012 Austrian State Archives In rivers confluence – Life on Slovak-Austrian border 19 - 20 March 2013 Bratislava Castle Cross Border Archives 7 November 2013 Lower Austrian State Library FINAL CONFERENCE Memory without borders. Archives of the Austrian-Slovak border region. Present and future 13 – 14 May 2014 Bratislava Castle & Austrian State Archives

CULTURAL AKTIVITIES COURSES FOR SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES Working with the Inline-Portal, Reading old scripts … GUIDED TOURS IN AUSTRIAN & SLOVAK ARCHIVES u.a. Slovak State Archives, Cty Archives in Bratislava, Slovak National Archives, Austrian State Archives, Lower Austrian Archives, Vienna City and State Archives …

PR ACTIVITIES → 10.000 BILINGUAL FOLDERS IN GERMAN & SLOVAK → FLYERS FOR GUIDED TOURS, WORKSHOPS, COURSES → PROJECT WEBSITE WWW.CROSSBORDERARCHIVES.EU ONLINE PORTAL FOR RESEARCH EVENT CALENDAR → PRESENTATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA

TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION → DIGITIZATION FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS ~ 800.000 SCANS UNTIL JUNE 2014 → SCAN EQUIPMENT USED BOOKEYE 3 COLOR A1 COLOR SCANS TO DIN A1 RESOLUTION MAX. 400 DPI

ONLINE - PORTAL PORTAL www.crossborderarchives.eu IMAGES from the partner webservers METADATA for example www.matricula.findbuch.net

ONLINE – PORTAL http://crossborderarchives.eu

County Bratislava 1

Archdiocese Vienna

Lower Austrian “Herrschaftsarchive”

Franciscean Catasters

Austrian War Archives

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Corinna Ziegler ICARUS – International Centre for Archival Research Email: corinna.ziegler@icar-us.eu Web: www.crossborderarchives.eu | www.icar-us.eu