archival heritage of religious communities in croatia and possibilities for its e-accessibility...

Archival Heritage of Religious Communities in Croatia and Possibilities for its e-Accessibility

Dražen KušenState Archives in Osijek

31000 Osijek, K. Firingera 1drazen.kusen@dao.hr

Croatia – Influences during the History

The Mediterranean

influence

Central European influence

Western infuelce

Eastern influences

Religious influences

Political influences

Social migrations

CROATIA

Croatian Identity today

Multiethnic

Multicultural Multireligious

The most important religious Communities contributing to archival Herritage in Croatia

Roman catholic Church (roman tradition)

Greek catholic Church (byzantine tradition – unity with Roman catholic

church) Serbian ortodox Church Reformation Churches Jewis religious Community Islam religious Community

Necessary to understand

typology and hierarchical archive levels of Croatian religious communities

typology and the importance of the preserved archives content

most important data resources and their application

Dispersion religious Archival heritage in two different contexts:

The holdings and collections of archival heritage of religious communities, which are preserved in public archive institutions as their own materials.

The holdings and collections which are preserved within the religious institutions and archives as their own materials.

Register

The result of the cooperation between Croatian state archive and the religious communities: Register of archive funds and collections of Republic

of Croatia, which was published in 2006. ARHiNET - a network information system for

describing, processing and managing archival material.

The most religious communities do not have any published registers of their own archives

Access

Access to religious archives is mainly limited, but varies in different institutions.There are some archives which are easy to

access, including via internetThe other ones with limited or no access to

rather at all conventional documents.

Content of religious Archives

The records about the history of the very institutions.

The other holdings and collections, gathered, donated or deposited during the history.

The most important documents: notarial documents, register of births, marriages and deaths, records of Canon visitations (inspections) and Status animarum

Some Illustrations of Materials in Archives of the Catholic Church

Some Examples of good Practice in Croatia

The one hundred year old cooperation between Roman Catholic Archdiocese archives in Zagreb and Croatian State Archives

Jewish research and documenting Center “Cendo”Zagreb

Endeavors at international Level

International Council on Archives (ICA) - “Section of Archives of Churches and Religious Denominations” (SKR)

UNESCO portal has the links of the religious communities archives, associations and organizations all over the world which take care of religious heritage archive

A material assumptions (preparatory work) for e-Accessibility

Necessary Activities

professional assessment of the condition

material protection

intellectual protection:expert processing of material and staff training

perspective: collaboration with IT professionals

Partners in the Process

Financial partners (governments, NGOs, sponzors)

Religious communities

Archival profession

Thank you for your attention!

Dražen KušenState Archives in Osijek

31000 Osijek, K. Firingera 1drazen.kusen@dao.hr