Yesterday on 05 December 2013 our ICARUS president Thomas Aigner was awarded with the Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria. As inspiring pioneer in terms of the digitization of archival documents and unparalleled catalyst advocating and actively originating initiatives and projects which establish and strengthen international networks within the […]

Great news! We are happy to welcome yet another new member to ICARUS: the Cologne Centre for eHumanities (CCeH)

Welcome to ICARUS: Archives of the Republic of Srpska! It´s a pleasure to welcome another archive from Bosnia-Herzegovina to our team. To learn more about this archive, please click on the image below.

Hello and welcome to the Archivverbund Stadtarchiv and the Staatsfilialarchiv Bautzen (DE)! Both archives are dedicated to safekeeping, conserving and indexing archival documents for public use. The Archivverbund holds archival material mainly used for research into local and family history as well as for academic, legal and personal research. The Stadtarchiv (City Archive) allocates the city’s […]

A warm welcome to our newest member: the University Archives of Heidelberg (DE)! We are delighted to welcome this long-established institution to our consortium and are looking forward to possible future cooperation. To learn more about the University Archives of Heidelberg click on the image below.

The Archiv der Zeitgenossen (AT) will organize a seminar on “Archivgut Papier” at the Donau Universität Krems on 16 – 17 January 2014. More information on the content, instructor and conditions of participation can be found >>>here. The seminar will be held in German.

On 21 – 22 November 2013 the conference “Digitale Bibliothek: Kuturelles Erbe in der Cloud” will be held at the University of Graz (AT). Conference language: German Thursday, 21.11.2013 (workshops): 1) Austrian Books Online. Eine Private-Public Partnership. (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) 2) Europeana Cloud – New Spaces for Sharing Content  (Europeana Office, Niederlande) 3) TextGrid – Virtuelle […]

The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa organizes a workshop in cooperation with the Budapest City Archives (Hungary) and the National Archives of Malta as part of the activities of the ENArC project (supported by the Culture 2007 – 2013 Programme of the European Union): Cartography and cadastral maps Visions from the past, for a vision of our future Find out more about […]

As a sister project to CENDARI – the Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure – CULTURA aims at “building the next generation of online culture experience – guiding, assisting and empowering every user’s interaction with Europe’s cultural treasures”. CULTURA stands for Cultivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity and envisions to upgrade the engagement with digital humanities collections by integrating […]