TALK "Digitizing in the archive sector of Sweden: some experiences" by Dr. Peter Olusson > 11am on 13th February 2019

Venue : Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road

Time : 11:00 am Add to Calendar 13/02/2019 11:00 13/02/2019 12:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Digitizing in the archive sector of Sweden: some experiences" by Dr. Peter Olusson Event Page : https://www.delhievents.com/2019/02/talk-digitizing-archive-sector-sweden-peter-olusson-ignca.html Kala Nidhi Division, 2nd Floor, Lecture Room, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Kala Nidhi Division, 2nd Floor, Lecture Room, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road, New Delhi - 110001
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Event Description : Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Kala Nidhi Cordially invites you to "Digitizing in the archive sector of Sweden: some experiences" by Dr. Peter Olusson, Department of History, Karlstad University, Sweden

Chair Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur Director & Head Kala Nidhi, IGNCA

Brief profile of Speaker: PhD in history, working as university lecturer at Karlstad University, Sweden, responsible for the education program in Archival Science at our university

Brief summary of Talk: In Sweden, scanning of archives have gone on since the 1990s and was predessesed by a major microfilming, that started already in the 1950s. The scanning is runned by a branch of the National Archive of Sweden through a certain quality system, "the digital chain". Today, all population data in the church records from the 1600s and until 1991 are scanned, after that period, the population records are all computerized. Lots of other types of archive material is also scanned, like hundred of thousands of maps with description, all from the 1600s and onwards. The scanning activities continue and the scanning center has also done work for archives in other countries 

Sweden has since about a decade a principle of digitizing of all dutys made by national authori ties. Many regional and local communities work in that direction as well. Digitizing solves many problems, but it also creates new ones. Security issues, issues of long term safe keeping etc are some of those.

I will try to describe the development of archive digitizing. I can also show some examples of the products that now are publicly accessible for everybody through the internet.

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