Purpose

This paper aims to describe the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project's ongoing efforts to virtually integrate trans-national archival sources via the reconstruction of collection provenance as it relates to copy collections (material copied from one archive to another) and the co-referencing of subject and authority terms across material held by distinct institutions.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper is a case study of approximately 6,000 words length. The authors describe the scope of the problem of archival fragmentation from both cultural and technical perspectives, with particular focus on Holocaust-related material, and describe, with graph-based visualisations, two ways in which EHRI seeks to better integrate information about fragmented material.

Findings

As a case study, the principal contributions of this paper include reports on our experience with extracting provenance-based connections between archival descriptions from encoded finding aids and the challenges of co-referencing access points in the absence of domain-specific controlled vocabularies.

Originality/value

Record linking in general is an important technique in computational approaches to humanities research and one that has rightly received significant attention from scholars. In the context of historical archives, however, the material itself is in most cases not digitised, meaning that computational attempts at linking must rely on finding aids which constitute much fewer rich data sources. The EHRI project’s work in this area is therefore quite pioneering and has implications for archival integration on a larger scale, where the disruptive potential of Linked Open Data is most obvious.

中文翻译：

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在EHRI门户中记录链接

目的

本文旨在描述欧洲大屠杀研究基础设施（EHRI）项目正在进行的工作，即通过与馆藏副本（从一个档案馆复制到另一档案馆的资料复制）相关的馆藏来源重建，虚拟整合跨国档案资源。由不同机构持有的材料中的主题和权限术语。

设计/方法/方法

本文是一个大约6,000字长的案例研究。作者从文化和技术角度描述了档案碎片化问题的范围，特别着重于大屠杀相关材料，并通过基于图形的可视化描述了EHRI寻求更好地整合有关碎片化材料信息的两种方式。

发现

作为案例研究，本文的主要贡献包括有关我们从编码的查找辅助工具中提取档案描述之间的基于出处的联系以及在没有特定领域的受控词汇的情况下共同引用访问点的挑战的经验的报告。

创意/价值

总体而言，记录链接是人文研究计算方法中的一项重要技术，并且受到了学者的正确关注。但是，在历史档案的情况下，材料本身在大多数情况下都不是数字化的，这意味着在进行链接的计算尝试时必须依靠查找辅助工具，而辅助工具构成的数据源要少得多。因此，EHRI项目在该领域的工作是开创性的，并且对档案集成产生了更大的影响，其中链接开放数据的破坏潜力最为明显。