The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) was founded in 1808 as an advisory body to the Dutch Government – a role that it continues to play today. The Academy derives its authority from the quality of its members, who represent the full spectrum of scientific and scholarly endeavour and are selected on the basis of their achievements. It is also responsible for sixteen internationally renowned institutes whose research and collections put them in the vanguard of Dutch science and scholarship.
Two of the KNAW institutes are directly involved in PARTHENOS: NIOD and DANS.
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NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is a knowledge and information centre on war and large-scale violence in the 20th and 21st century.
NIOD’s area of work focuses on research into the effects of wars, the Holocaust and other genocides on individuals and society.
NIOD:
- collects, manages, opens up and makes accessible archives and collections about the Second World War.
- conducts academic research and publishes about it.
- gives information to government bodies and individuals.
- stimulates and organises debates and activities about war violence and processes that are at the basis of war violence.
NIOD is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, www.niod.nl/eng.
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EHRI aims to support the Holocaust research community by providing (online) access to dispersed sources relating to the Holocaust and by encouraging collaborative research through the development of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). From October 2010 until March 2015 a consortium of 20 partner institutions and a large network of associate partners have been cooperating by bringing together the expertise and perspectives of three disciplines: Holocaust studies, archival science and e-Research/digital humanities.
EHRI was financed under the EU 7th Framework Programme and is coordinated by NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. EHRI continues in the second phase of the project, starting in May 2015 and working with EU funding from Horizon 2020. The new consortium has 22 partners.
EHRI’s overriding ambition is to overcome some of the hallmark challenges of Holocaust research – the distributed and dispersed nature of the research materials.
EHRI achievements include:
- Development of a new community dedicated to integrating Holocaust material from many dispersed archives.
- New interdisciplinary research bringing together Holocaust historians with archivists and digital humanities specialists.
- Building an online portal with:
- Access to archival material from over 1,800 institutions in 50 countries
- Publication of 47 national reports on the state of Holocaust research
- Creation of 3,000 new archival descriptions of Holocaust-relevant material
- Overall integration of over 150,000 archival descriptions from over 450 Holocaust archival institutions
- Creation of new standards, ontologies and thesauri to integrate Holocaust material and harmonise activities across the relevant archives.
- Fellowships and summer schools on Holocaust Studies
- Online Course in Holocaust Studies
- Dedicated research guides for thematic integration of Holocaust material providing access to Holocaust research also for non-expert users
- Unprecedented survey of the needs of Holocaust researchers from over 270 respondents.
- Systematic mappings of the state of Holocaust archives and development of connectors to integrate their material into the EHRI portal
- Novel graph-based approach to integrating heterogeneous Holocaust material
- Interactive transnational Virtual Research Environment with currently over 500 registered users.
www.ehri-project.eu
https://portal.ehri-project.eu/
Role in PARTHENOS
KNAW-NIOD / EHRI is Work Package Leader for Work Package 8 Communication, dissemination and outreach, and involved in Work Package 2 Community involvement and requirements, where it leads the task on Definition of standardization requirements. NIOD also leads the WP 7 task Coordination and assessment of Trans-National Access.
Contact details.
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Herengracht 380
1016 CJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (0)20-523 38 00
www.niod.nl/eng
NIOD is coordinator of EHRI, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
www.ehri-project.eu
For Communication are involved:
Reto Speck, reto.speck@kcl.ac.uk
Petra Drenth, p.drenth@niod.knaw.nl
For standardization requirements:
Petra Links, p.links@niod.knaw.nl
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) promotes sustained access to digital research data. For this purpose, DANS encourages researchers to archive and reuse data in a sustained manner, e.g. through the online archiving system EASY. DANS also provides access, via NARCIS.nl, to thousands of scientific datasets, e-publications and other research information in the Netherlands. In addition, the institute provides training and advice, and performs research into sustained access to digital information. Driven by data, DANS ensures that access to digital research data keeps improving, through its services and by taking part in national & international projects and networks. DANS is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
DANS is one of the founding members of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), where it leads the competency group on scholarly content management (VCC3).
The e-depot for Dutch archaeology e-Depot Nederlandse Archeologie (EDNA), is accommodated at DANS. The e-depot stores the digital files with research data of Dutch archaeologists. DANS is partner of ARIADNE.
DANS is partner of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), where it manages metadata standards and the integration of metadata from the collections of the different institutions
DANS pioneered the Data Seal of Approval (DSA), it has obtained the DSA quality mark for the EASY online archiving system and is the first archive in the Netherlands working on certification in accordance with the DIN standard. With this experience, we are able to coach archives in the steps required to become trustworthy.
DANS is Work Package leader for Work Package 3 Common Policies and Strategies and participates in Work Package 2 Community Involvement and Requirements, Work Package 4 Standardization and Work Package 7 Skills, Professional Development and Advancement.
Contacts
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Anna van Saksenlaan 51 – 2593 HW The Hague
P.O. Box 93067 – 2509 AB The Hague
The Netherlands
+31 70 349 44 50
dans.knaw.nl
More information:
Project Manager Hella Hollander: hella.hollander@dans.knaw.nl