Rossio participated in the International Workshop “Archives and Historical Research – International Best Practices in Digitisation Projects” carried out within the scope of the Diplomatic Institute project: “Refuge, Migration and Holocaust, 1939-1945: The Visa Collection of the Diplomatic Archives and a Photographic Collection of the Portuguese Red Cross” which took place online on April 29th, between 2 and 5 pm.
Professor Daniel Alves, who is part of the ROSSIO coordinating committee, presented the communication “Open source platforms to link data and enhance research: approaches from the ROSSIO Infrastructure and the IHC’s Digital Humanities Lab”). The ROSSIO Infrastructure emerges as an example of a metadata aggregating research platform connecting data from the seven Consortium institutions, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities’s Research Units, partner institutions and other content providers, providing access to a total of around 30 million digital resources.
The EHRI- European Holocaust Research Infrastructure which enables online access to information about Holocaust sources and Metagrid.ch, a project of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) for the online human resources network, carried out by Swiss Diplomatic Documents (Dodis) were also presented as examples of best practices in Digitisation.
ROSSIO will integrate in its platform the digital resources of the Project “Refuge, Migration and Holocaust, 1939-1945”, which includes a collection of visas from the Diplomatic Archive and a photographic collection from the Portuguese Red Cross, from the Diplomatic Institute, financed by FCT, within the scope of the Program National Day around the Memory of the Holocaust.
The Workshop’s program is available here.
