© David Anderson
In April and early May, the eArchiving Initiative was presented by a team of five eArchiving members to the Digital Academy in Riga, Latvia. The hybrid event was held at Turiba University and organised under the auspices of the Latvian School of Public Administration (LSPA). The event was part of a specialised training course on Digital Preservation, aimed at broadening the knowledge and skills across the Latvian public sector.
The eArchiving Initiative members, Professor Janet Anderson, Professor David Anderson, Miguel Guimarães, Koit Saarevet and PhD candidate Gregor Završnik delivered a series of presentations to an audience that included representatives from the public administration community, data creators, IT specialists, and archivists working in the National Archives of Latvia and other institutions.
This training event was designed for document and archive specialists with limited or no experience in preserving electronic documents and it comprised an introduction to broader topics. During their presentations the eArchiving delegation talked about the foundations of digital preservation, the eArchiving Initiative, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the appraisal of electronic information, database archiving, and archiving geospatial data.
Event Programme Highlights
Digital preservation and curation issues
- Koit Saarevet and Dr Tarvo Karberg, (National Archives of Estonia, the eArchiving Initiative) – Digital Preservation.
- PhD Daiva Lukšaite (Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania, Vilnius University), Hanno Vares from National Archives of Estonia – Electronic and paper records: management and archiving problems in the Baltic States.
- Prof. Janet Anderson (the eArchiving Initiative, E. Loránd University in Budapest) - The eArchiving Initiative
- Prof. David Anderson (the eArchiving Initiative, E. Loránd University in Budapest) - The challenges of archiving electronic documents: appraisal, artificial intelligence.
- Prof. G. Krūmiņš (Vidzeme Higher Education Institution) - Electronic Historical Sources: A Stakeholders' Perspective.
Different types of digital document archiving approaches
- Prof. J. Anderson (the eArchiving Initiative, E. Loránd University in Budapest), Miguel Guimarães (the eArchiving Initiative, Keeps Solutions) - Archiving databases: approaches.
- PhD cand. G. Završnik (the eArchiving Initiative, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Archiving geospatial data.