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==Keynote: No Archive is an Island – A Tale of Exploring a Brave New World==
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No Archive is an Island – A Tale of Exploring a Brave New
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Kerstin Arnold 1
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    Archives Portal Europe Foundation, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20, 2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands
                                  Abstract
                                  For centuries, archives have worked on their own. Their functions of preservation and access
                                  were specific to one public body, one organisation, one person or family, thereby often bound
                                  to a specific location or region or nation. Following the principle of provenance, there wasn't
                                  much of an overlap between documents from one archive and those from another when it came
                                  to the actors that had created, worked with, and used the documents held by the archival
                                  institutions. And even if there was overlap regarding the persons and organisations that these
                                  documents were about, those documents were - in their majority - still unique to a specific
                                  archive with no necessity to share with other archival institutions, as researchers would come
                                  to the place where the originals were held. Today's archival landscape might not necessarily
                                  look that different, even with all the initiatives of aggregating archival descriptions throughout
                                  the last 10 to 15 years, but the map of archival research certainly does. Expectations of users
                                  have changed with their experience of the Internet and “all things digital”, they want to access
                                  the documents they are interested in from where they are, and new connections between
                                  archival documents and the entities that one can find within them are surfaced not only from
                                  within the archives but also from other sources. This keynote will explore why linking archives
                                  is so important, what the challenges are to reaching this goal, how standardisation can help,
                                  and which role aggregators such as Archives Portal Europe (www.archivesportaleurope.net)
                                  and Europeana (www.europeana.eu) can play in all of this.


                                  Keywords 1
                                  Archives, Archival description, Standardisation, Linked Data, Linked Open Data, Aggregation




TPDL2022: 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 20-23 September 2022, Padua, Italy
EMAIL: kerstin.arnold@archivesportaleurope.net
ORCID: 0000-0002-4344-3798
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