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Tag: 27. Februar 2003

Landesverband Sächsischer Archivare

Die neu gestaltete Homepage bietet erfreulicherweise die Möglichkeit, die Beiträge der Sächsischen Archivtage von Chemnitz 2000 (Kooperation und fachlicher Austausch) und Aue 2001(Grenzüberschreitende böhmisch-sächsische Beziehungen und ihre Wiederspiegelung im Archivwesen und in der Landesgeschichte) im Volltext als PDF-Dateien abzurufen. 2000 hebe ich hervor einen Werkstattbericht zum Thema Archive und Schulen (Stadtarchiv Memmingen). Aus dem auch landesgeschichtlich interessanten Band 2001 verdient überregionales Interesse der Aufsatz über Quellen zur deutschen Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Prager Archiven.

Reimann Honorarprofessor der FH Potsdam

Wie vielseitig: Reimanns Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre liegen im kommunalen und privaten Archivwesen sowie in den Bereichen der Archivorganisation und des Archivmanagements, liest man in der Pressemitteilung über die neue Ehrung für Westfäl. Archivamtsleiter Dr. Reimann. Andere Archivare arbeiten auch schon mal über etwas Historisches …

The Saddam Papers

Saddam soon will be history, writes Martin Kramer in his Weblog about the Middle East. It’s important that the United States collect and preserve as much of it as possible. I refer to the vast archives of the various arms of the Iraqi regime: the presidency of the republic, the Baath Party, the Republican Guard, the intelligence and security organizations, the ministries of foreign affairs and information, and more. If the United States establishes a military authority to run the country, it should do what the Western allies did in occupied Germany: collect and collate the archives of the enemy.

A German State in Texas?

NEW BRAUNFELS — The German nobles who helped finance early German settlements in Texas had a secret plan to establish a foothold and then break free of the Republic of Texas, according to a German prince […]. Prince Johannes von Sachsen-Altenburg, Duke of Saxony, discovered the plan to create a German state in Texas among documents in family archives in Germany, Russia and France.
(MySanAntonio)

ERPANET Workshop Bern: Long-term Preservation of Databases

It will be held 9-11 April. The schedule can be found here.
The workshop will cover the entire process of database preservation: selection, appraisal, preservation, description, and access. Technical solutions will occupy an important place in the workshop and archival requirements will also be addressed.

Archives and Copyright (US)

Excerpt of an answer to a question about copyright in archival practice (from the Archives Listserv):
Some suggestions:
Michael Les Benedict, “Historians and the Continuing
Controversy over Fair Use of Unpublished Manuscript
Materials,” The American Historical Review, 91 (1986),
859-881.
Kenneth D. Crews, “Fair Use of Unpublished Works:
Burdens of Proof and the Integrity of Copyright,”
Arizona State Law Journal, 31 (1999), 2-93 (the notes
in this article are very useful)
Tomas A. Lipinski, ed., Libraries, Museums, and
Archives: Legal Issues and Ethical Challenges in the
New Information Era (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press,
2002). There is an article by Crews, and several
others that might be helpful.
I can add an important online resource which has disappeared from the net but is still in the Google cache: Peter Hirtle, Unpublished materials, new technologies, and copyright: facilitating scholarly use.