On January 27, the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, the inauguration ceremony took place at the POLIN Museum in Warsaw. Among those present were Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) and NIOD director Martijn Eickhoff.
This development marks a significant step forward in EHRI’s mission to bridge the gaps between dispersed archival materials across Europe and beyond. By doing so, it seeks to overcome the fragmentation of Holocaust historiography and foster a more comprehensive understanding of this pivotal event in European history.
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is an initiative of research centers, archives and museums from many countries. EHRI was established in 2010 as a project initiated by NIOD, the Dutch institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and has since been coordinated by NIOD.
Aligning Holocaust data with Open Research and FAIR data principles
DANS has been involved in defining & developing the EHRI Portal, launched in 2015, and the ingest processes for gathering metadata descriptions of archival resources pertaining to the Holocaust.
Also, DANS’ role included to create a course, which provides an introduction to research data management, data management plans, FAIR data and Open Research, especially for Collection Holding Institutes who provide access to Holocaust data and for researchers. It also features a discussion on how this practice applies to Holocaust research. This online course is available through the website of OpenPlato; find it here.
The new research infrastructure will unite, in addition to the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Croatia, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the UK. More information on the inauguration ceremony can be found on EHRI’s website.
Foto Maciek Jaźwiecki
