This two-day conference Open Archives? Archives 2.0 in German-speaking regions within a European context is dedicated to explore the relation of archives, Social Media and Web 2.0 applications. Addressing these pressing topics of modern, digital times in relation to archives will show just how much traditional thought working environments can benefit from current media developments. […]

We a delighted to announce that Dr. Thomas Aigner (President ICARUS) has been awarded the Johann-Christoph-Gatterer medal on September 2nd by the German Association of Genealogic Societies within the 64th German Day of Genealogists in Augsburg (DE). This award honours Dr. Thomas Aigner’s pioneering achievements for making church registers accessible online in German-speaking regions (www.matricula-online.de). […]

On September 5th the ICARUS@work workshop was held at the Historic Institute of the University of Wroclaw as the pre-convention event to the VI General Convention of Polish Archivists in Wroclaw (PL). A day full of interesting lectures and research results from Polish as well as Czech archivists once more exemplified the importance and productive […]

From September 13-14,2012 the Vienna Library organizes a two-day conference on digital business routines, retro-digitization and online presentation of analogue media as well as open access publications – “Digitale Geschäftsgänge, Retrodigitalisierung und Online-Präsentation analoger Medien sowie von Open Access-Publikationen”. In addition, there will be a Visual Library User workshop discussion on Friday 14, 2012 with […]

ICARUS@work #11 will be part of the pre-convention events at the 6th General Convention of Polish Archivists in Wroclaw from September 5-7, 2012: The title for this ICARUS workshop on September 5th, 2012 is “Meeting the digital challenge together – The ICARUS-Experience“. Ranging from presenting the ICARUS network including its inherent wide range of activities, […]

Some of the minutes, the report of the whole meeting, the newsletter article that was published in the Einsiedler Stadtanzeiger and some pictures of our speakers, presentations and of course the fierce soccer game are now available here.

We would like to welcome our newest member – the Stadtarchiv Nordhausen in Thüringen, Germany. Check out their flyer! Cheers to future cooperations!

On Thursday 19 July 2012, the Archives Portal Europe will be presented at the Digital Humanities conference at the University of Hamburg (DE). The conference will be from 16 – 22 July focusing on Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods. The presentation on the Archives Portal Europe will be within the framework of the Panel Session […]

We are delighted to announce the accession of our newest member: The Nadškofijski arhiv Maribor Happy to have you on board and looking forward to our future cooperations!