Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Archives

The workshop took place December 6, 2005 and was organized in the framework of the work of the MINERVA Plus project, WG6, Best Practices in Digitisation (Cost Reduction). It was a collaborative event of the Sweden National Archives and the Israel State Archives.

Venue: Weizmann Hall, The Jewish Agency for Israel, 46 King George St. Jerusalem (3^rd Floor)

Main guest: Borje Justrell, Head of the IT Department, National Archives, Sweden

The National Archives (Riksarkivet) is one of the oldest public agencies in Sweden, its history leading back to the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna created a new organization for the record-keeping and the National Archives came into being. Today, the National Archives has the supervision of all public records of the agencies of the central Government, while it delegates to the regional archives the supervision of records generated by regional and local authorities. The Military Archives, SVAR (Svensk Arkivinformation) and Arkion are also parts of the National Archives. See: http://www.ra.se/indexengelska.html

08:30 – 09:00

Program:

Arrival and registration

09:00 – 09:15

Opening and details of the program

Chairman: Assaf Tractinsky, Head IT Department, Israel State Archives

Dr. Yehoshua Freundlich, Israel State Archivist

Dov Winer, coordinator MINERVA network in Israel
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09:15 – 10:15

Borje Justrell

The Digital Black Hole: Reflections on Costs for Long Term Storage of Digital Information. Based on an Article by Jonas Palm, Head of Department of Preservation
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10:15 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00

Presentations by Israeli Archives

Israel State Archives:Real Life Digitization, Boaz Avissar, ISA, IT manager
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The Central Zionist Archives, Rochelle Rubinstein, Deputy Director of Archival Affairs 
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The JNUL perspectives :Archives and Digital Preservation, Orly Simon, Head of Technology Department
Here for Pictures from the Fransta Reduction Seminar
Report on the Fransta Cost Reduction Seminar
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12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00

Borje Justrell

Digitization Preservation: Challenges and Opportunities
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14:00 – 15:00

Presentations by technology providers

Olive Software - Bridging the gap between the paper past and the digital future, Yoni Stern, President
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etype – Digital recording and transcribing,
Oren Bar, R&D Manager
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Ligature –OCR,
Giora Shimoni Director of Marketing and Sales
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Long term preservation of Audio, Video and Film at the Israel State Archives
Shai Drori, Consultant, ISA

15:00 – 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:00

Discussion and summary by Borje Justrell