International Archives Week 2021
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CALL TO IMPROVE THE PRESENCE OF ARCHIVES ON WIKIPEDIA
7 TO 11 JUNE 2021
With this call, Wikimedia Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the Association of Swiss Archivists VSA-AAS want to give an impulse to support this initiative, despite the actual circumstances. In consulting the geographical map linked below, you will immediately see, that there is a lot to catch up regarding Wikimedia content on archives in the respective countries.
We thank all the volunteers and authors engaging in our projects and we hope you will continue to make a contribution to free archival knowledge by adding and completing the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikimedia sister projects on topics related to the theme of International Archives Week 2021 ‚EmpoweringArchives‘. In keeping with the International Archives Week and this year's focus, we invite you to help us completing and improving the presence of archives on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
«Empowering Archives»
International Archives Week 2021 is about
accountability, collaboration and inclusivity
This year's International Archives Week is about discussing how archives empower accountability and transparency, through access to information for holding governments to account and ensuring that citizens can protect their rights. Or how networking and collaboration enable ICA to empower archives and the profession to help us achieve our goals and objectives for the professions and our institutions through the support of allied professions while helping other sectors and the general public understand what we do. And finally, ICA would like to discuss how to challenge current archival theory and practice to make it more diverse and inclusive of different voices along with different histories.
ICA is inviting the records and archives community to reflect on the following three main topics:
- Accountability & Transparency and how archives, archivists and record managers are accountable in their own spaces and are supporting the accountability of other institutions.
- Networking & Collaboration and how archives, archivists and record managers are strengthening their network, enabling more collaboration within the sector and other professions, and working on being more collaborative to develop new archival practices and approaches.
- Inclusivity & Diversity and how archives are starting to engage in learning and acting on more diverse and inclusive spaces, practices and conversations.
Consult the Geographic Archives Map for linked Wikimedia Content
The following geographic map locates Archives in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, based on Wikidata records. If you want to know which archives already have a Wikipedia article and which do not, as well as the respective quality of the article, you can find out by using the link to the map below. If you are a Wikidata expert, help us to improve and inject additional meta data into Wikidata to complete the information base for archives in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
Have fun exploring!
- Black symbols: no Wikipedia article
- Red symbols: one Wikipedia article
- Orange symbols: at least two Wikipedia articles
- Green symbols: four Wikipedia articles
How to participate & contribute
We have set-up an outreach dashboard. If you want to enroll and assign the articles or categories you are working on for International Archives Week please click here. The registration on the dashboard is optional.
- Wiki Project Archives cantonales vaudoises
- Europeana-Sammlungen online Link
- UNESCO Digitale Bibliothek - Open-Access-Material für die Forschung Link
- Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv Online-Zugang Link
- Archivbestand der ETH-Bibliothek Link
- e-Helvetica der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek Link
- Archivdatenbank der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek Link
- Bilder-Archiv Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde Link
- Zugang zu den audiovisuellen Archiven des IKRK Link
- Online-Katalog der Schweizerischen Nationalphonothek Link
Contact us!
Debora Lopomo
GLAM Program & Partnership Manager, Wikimedia Switzerland
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
debora.lopomo wikimedia.ch
Find the list of contact persons by Wikimedia chapter in the table below:
WMCH | WMAT | WMDE | ||
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For voluntary community | ||||
DE: ulrich.lantermann wikimedia.ch FR: flor.mechain wikimedia.ch IT: ilario.valdelli wikimedia.ch |
verein wikimedia.at | kultur wikimedia.de | ||
For cultural institutions | ||||
debora.lopomo wikimedia.ch | raimund.liebert wikimedia.at | holger.plickert wikimedia.de | ||
For communication and press | ||||
kerstin.sonnekalb wikimedia.ch | claudia.garad wikimedia.at | alexander.moeller wikimedia.de |