Deutsche Archive im digitalen Zeitalter

German archives and digital transformation: Numerous archives are now committed to the idea of openness, to participatory and user-oriented goals, and to the use of digital tools. With the founding of the "Open Archives" conference series in 2012, a group of archivists set out to better shape the digital future of archives in Germany. The conference blog will be ten years old in early 2022 and has established itself as the first and only platform for German archiving. Time for a retrospective, status review and future planning. The book is based on diverse professional and practical contributions to the blog and deals with digital topics, such as the implementation and use of social media and blogs for archives, possibilities of participative user contacts of all kinds, as well as the technical feasibility of (open) online tools for the classic archive tasks.

Dr. Antje Diener-Staeckling, LWLArchivamt für Westfalen, Münster Dagmar Hovestädt, Bundesarchiv, Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv, Berlin Dr. Joachim Kemper, Stadt und Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg Patricia Lenz, Archivarin, Institut für Stadtgeschichte Gelsenkirchen