In the Budapest City Archives on June 17/18th 2010 will be held a conference and a  
workshop

CADASTRAL MAPS IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Conference explores the possible ways of international cooperations on digitization and publication of cadastral maps. Cadastral Maps of 19th, 20th century made in the Habsburg, later Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy will be shown too. The Archives participates in the conference with its Collection of Plans and Maps.

In the Gallery of Historical Archives of Belgrade on May 26th, 2010 will be open an exhibition on the occasion of

FIFTY YEARS CAREER OF IVICA MLAĐENOVIĆ

The exhibition is devoted to his completed projects, books, articles and awards so Belgrade Triennial of World Architecture (1958-2009). The legacy of Ivica Mlađenović is kept in the Archives since 2005.

[legacy of Ivica Mlađenović]

exhibition
BANJICA CONCENTRATION CAMP
Prisoners

since March 2010 will be exhibited in
the Budapest City Archives

Banjica Concentration camp, ”death factory” set on the edge of Belgrade city, recived first prisoners on 9 July 1941 and almost 30. 000 people of different nationalities, occupations, ages, political views passed through it until it was put out of function on 3 October 1944...

Historical Archives of Belgrade in cooperation with Ministry of Culture of Republic of Sebia on December 14th 2009 held the promotion of archival information systems

National Archives of Croatia  and Historical Archives of Belgrade represented its program solutions intended for automatization of working process and digitization of archive materials within the standardization of archive practice. Presentation allowed insight into previous expirience and achievements in the field of records management in Republic of Croatia so the Historical Archives of Belgrade.

In the gallery of Histrorical Archives of Belgrade on September 11th  was opened visiting exibition of Budapest City Archives titled

Neo-Renaissance Architecture
in Budapest

Hungary pronounced 2008 the Year of Renaissance. On that occasion Budapest City Archives opened an exhibition of plans and projects of Neo-Renaissance buildings in the city. The exhibition showed plans and projects, which comprehend characteristic forms of Italian, German and partly French Renaissance. These buildings became a part of the history of the town, treasury of architectural stile, presenters of elegance of its age. Among the projects of public buildings, the exhibition contents larger selection of private housing buildings. Photographs of edifices of Renaissance times – a part of Collection of Photographs of Klösz György, supply the exhibition.
In this way, Historical Archives of Belgrade participates in this year’s manifestation of European Heritage Days (September 2009).

In Budapest on October 30th was signed

Agreement on cooperation between Budapest and Belgrade City Archives

In the period between 29 and 31 October 2008, Historical Archives of Belgrade made an expert visit to the Budapest City Archives and National Archives of Hungary.

On that ocassion, Historical Archives of Belgrade and Budapest City Archives signed an agreement which formalized previous successful cooperation. Cooperation includes documentation research, exchange of reproduced archive materials and archivists, technical literature and expiriences, organizing and realization of mutual projects.

 a book

Computerization and Historiography
1995–2005

The author is Slobodan Mandić, historian and archivist, employed in Historical Archives of Belgrade

Association of archivists of Serbia and Archives of Serbia on December 14th 2007, organized a lecture on the subject

International standards in archive service and its application

Lecturers:

1. Peter Pavel Klasinc, International Institute for Archival Science, Тrieste-Maribor, International archive standards ISAF and ISIAH
2. Nada Berić, Archives of Vojvodina, Serbian version of standards ISAD(g) and ISAAR (CPF)
3. Nada Boroš, Historical Archives of Zrenjanin,Translating standards expirience and examples of its application
4. Olga Latinčić, Historical Archives of Belgrade, Application of ISAD (g) standard through data base of Historical Archives of Belgrade

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40th International conference of the Round Table on Archives, was held in Quebec, Canada from November 12 until 18, 2007 entitled

Cooperation to preserve diversity

At the conference participated delegation of Republic of Serbia within the archives of Miroslav Perišić, Director of the Archives of Serbia, Jasmina Nikolić, Director of the Historical Archives of Požarevac and Svetlana Adžić, Head of Informational Department of Historical Archives of Belgrade.

In Trieste from October 15 until 25, 2007 was held

Outumn archivistic course
in organization of International Institute of Archival Science (IIAS)

Participants (from Italy and South East Europe) attended lectures from archivistic on introducing archivistic standards and new technologies, contribution and professionalism, records management… Svetlana Adžić from Historical Archives of Belgrade participated in project of development of multilingual archivistic technical vocabulary.

evening  with

Milorad Mišković and Dezmond Gines

Historical Archives of Belgrade in cooperation with the Assembly of the City of Belgrade organized evening with Milorad Mišković, great ballet artist, choreographer, art director of UNESCO, president of honour of International Dance Council of UNESCO and Mr Desmond Gines, founder of Irish  Georgian Society, held on September 10th, 2007 at Conference Hall of the City Assembly. The Event exibited large format posters of Milorad Mišković, documentary movie of Milorad Mišković, but ballet couple performed second act of ballet Swan Lake. The event opened Branka Prpa, PhD, Director of Historical Archives of Belgrade and about Mišković talked Gorica Mojović and Jovan Ćirilov. 

The evening was organized within the visit of Georgian Society, in occasion of celebration the European Prize for Cultural Heritage Europa Nostra, granted to the President, Desmond Gines.

On occasion of 40th anniversary of  BITEF, Historical Archives of Belgrade organized an exibition entitle

BITEF – Grand Prizes

Opening date: September 14th, 2007 in the gallery of Historical Archives of Belgrade
Author: Branka Prpa, PhD
Realization: Оlga Latinčić, Svetlana Adžić
Visualisation and graphical design: Bojana Đurović, Dragana Lacmanović
The exibition displayed first prize shows from all previous 40 plays in the form of photos, program, posters, illustrated material, guest books etc.

[fond BITEF]

 Within the manifestation  European Heritage Days, which was run this year entitled Cultural heritage – cornerstone for Europe development, in cooperative organization of Europe Council and European Comission from September 20 until 22, Historical Archives of Belgrade and Family Veljković participated with exibition titled

Veljković House
Family history – history of Belgrade

The exibition was opened on September 20th, 2007 in the Veljković House, Birčaninova street no. 21,
by Katarina Veljković and Branka Prpa PhD.

 In the Conference Hall of the City Assembly on September 24th was promoted a book

BITEF
40th anniversary of new theatre tendencies

The publication considering 300 pages of documents kept in Historical Archives of Belgrade, was devided on thematic units reflecting foundation of the festival, its organizational bodies, main and following program, interviews with creators on round tables, administration boards, members of the jury, corespondence with the eminent persons from the world of theatre (Bruck, Chulli, Vilson, Grotovski) so the interesting events published in daily bulletin.
Beside the important information from all previous manifestations, publication includes a large number of  photos, scanned documents, posters, programs, press clipping.
Introductory on BITEF and its role wrote Jovan Ćirilov, art director of BITEF, but opening speech Branka Prpa, editor in chief.

[fond BITEF]

VI meeting entitled
New technologies and standards: digitization of cultural heritage

At the meeting organized by the National Centre for Digitization participated our colleagues Svetlana Adžić and Srđan Orestijević. Presentations they held indicated problems of archival materials digitization and implementation of international standards.

Svetlana Adžić, Mladen Vujović, SRPS ISO 15489 and other standards in domain of records management.

Srđan Orestijević, Arhivski informacioni sistem Istorijskog arhiva Beograda

Third European Conference on EAD, EAC, and METS

Held from April 24 until 26, 2007, in Berlin organized by State Archives of Germany, under sponsorship of European board of International Council of Archives (EURBICA) and Europe Council. The conference attended about 250 representatives from European, Archives of Russia, USA and Australia. Two representatives of Historical Archives of Belgrade, Svetlana Adžić, head of Informational Center and Slobodan Mandić, archivist trainee attended the Conference. This large number of attendants proves that the subject of the Conference caused a great interest of archivists, so launched at the right time and in the turning point of archives deciding on further development in the context of informatical revolution which dramatically influenced professional, theoretical and archival service in practise.
Since the Archives use Internet more and more, to facilitate free and unrestricted access to fonds and collections, independent of time and place, in front of the archives is set as a prerquisite for exchange descriptive information and metadata on digitized and originally digital material, the need of using international standards EAD, EAC, and METS.
Thus, the Third International Conference provided general information on standards, represented expiriences of those Archives which already implemented it, so considered the different aspects of its application. The Conference program was extensive, seriousllypllaned, and provided complete introduction of previous expirience and streams in the future to the present attendants. Some Archives went further (beside the information provides digitized documents), but some are on the very beginning. It is specially emphasized that digitization provides enlarged number of access to the archival materials. Lecturers presented to theConference attendants complete insight, expiriences and models of application program which allows application of the standards for digital archives, creation of electronic finding aids, development of searching tools and other usefull recommendations and advices. One of the lecturers commented the need of standardization: “What are you doing and how do you behave in the privacy of Your depots - its Your thing, but when You go out on the World Wide Web, please `dress` standardized”!

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