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Ontotext - Semantic Integration

Partner in EHRI: Ontotext - Semantic Integration of Archives

06/10/2016

Vladimir Alexiev

Ontotext is a Bulgarian software company that works in the areas of Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, Semantic Text Analysis and Conceptual Search. We have worked on many EC research projects and commercial projects in the areas of semantic repositories (databases) and semantic text enrichment (concept extraction and named entity recognition). A lot of our business is with mass-media and publishing companies, such as BBC, Euromoney, Press Association, Financial Times, IET, Oxford University Press, Wiley, etc. We have also worked with GLAM institutions, such as the UK National Archives, the British Museum, one of the most important vocabulary institutions in Switzerland, Europeana, DBpedia.

ITS archive

ITS Online Finding Aid on Nazi Camp History Published on EHRI Portal

03/10/2016

An aid used by the International Tracing Service (ITS) to find general information on incarceration and persecution sites of the Nazi regime was published on the EHRI portal in May 2016. The physical finding aid - a card index - had been compiled gradually between the years 1970 and 1982 and served primarily as a search tool for ITS staff members. The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) supported its retro-conversion to serve as an online finding aid.

EHRI Seminar at the Bundesarchiv

EHRI Seminar in Berlin: Red, Blue, Green - What Colour Is Used by the Minister?

03/10/2016

The Federal Archives’ EHRI seminar "Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust" gave an introduction into the handling of German records.

Right to be forgotten versus right to remember

International Conference "Right To Be Forgotten Versus Right To Remember"

22/09/2016

10 October 2016, Academy Palace, Brussels, Belgium

Following the new EU privacy regulation, which was approved by the EU Parliament in May 2016, the Belgian State Archives organizes an international conference on "Right to be Forgotten Versus Right to Remember".

The new EU regulation introduces the "right to be forgotten". Archivists, historians, lawyers and information professionals from across Europe discuss the implications for the archival industry and historical research.

the site of the concentration camp at Sajmište today

Escalating into Holocaust

06/09/2016

EVENT

Wednesday 21 September 2016; Amsterdam, the Netherlands

A project financed by the EACEA - Europe for Citizens Programme; Strand 1 - European Remembrance (REMEM)

From execution squads to the gas van of the concentration camp at Sajmište. Two defining phases of the Holocaust in Serbia

Call for Applications: Joint Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates from UK Universities who are focusing on Holocaust-related topics

10/08/2016

Location: Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Dates: 21 – 24 November 2016

As a signatory to a joint letter of intent enabling greater cooperation between British Holocaust organisations and Yad Vashem and endorsed by the British Government, The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is partnering with the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem to host the second joint workshop for advanced PhD candidates in the UK and Israel working on Holocaust-related topics. 

Call for Fellows: 2017 JDC Archives Fellowship Program

02/08/2016

The JDC Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2017 fellowship program. In 2017, 5-6 fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem. Research topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, modern history, social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections.

EHRI seminar in Vilnius

EHRI Seminar in Vilnius: How to Read Holocaust Sources

27/07/2016

EHRI Seminar in Vilnius, June 26 - July 1, 2016

The EHRI Seminar for Holocaust researchers Languages, Cultures and Perspectives – How to Read Holocaust Sources took place in Vilnius, Lithuania in the premises of Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) and was organized by Kamilė Rupeikaitė and Neringa Latvytė-Gustaitienė from VGSJM together with Giles Bennett and Andrea Löw from the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Germany (IfZ). It was the first of approximately ten Methodological Seminars EHRI will conduct in the next few years.

Kindertransport

New Post on EHRI Blog: Letters From Children on the First Kindertransport

13/07/2016

The EHRI Document Blog has a new post. Taking it in turns, institutes and EHRI fellows highlight a document from their collection or research, offering extra information about the people, places and events mentioned. The blog also investigates new ways to present and interpret documents using new online and digital tools. The new post is written by Jessica Green.

Group photo EHRI June 2016

EHRI meets in Bucharest for its yearly assembly

07/07/2016

Once a year the people that work to make the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) a success all meet for a General Partner Meeting and several smaller working sessions. This year, on 21-23 June, the EHRI consortium of 23 partner institutions from 17 countries met in Bucharest, the city where hosting EHRI partner the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania is based.

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