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

1. Archival Heritage of Religious Communities in Croatia and Possibilities for its e-Accessibility Dražen KušenState Archives in Osijek31000 Osijek, K. Firingera 1drazen.kusen@dao.hr

2. Croatia – Influences during the History

3. Croatian Identity today

4. 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

5. 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

6. Dispersion religious Archival heritage in two different contexts: • The holdings and collections of archival heritage of religious communities, which are preserved in public archive institutionsas their own materials. • The holdings and collections which are preserved within the religious institutions and archives as their own materials.

7. 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 waspublished 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

8. Access • Access to religious archives is mainly limited, but varies in differentinstitutions. • There are some archives which are easy to access, including via internet • The other ones with limited or no access to rather at all conventional documents.

9. Content of religious Archives • Therecords about the history of the very institutions. • The otherholdings 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

10. Some Illustrations of Materials in Archivesof the Catholic Church

11. 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

12. 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 worldwhich take care of religious heritage archive

13. A material assumptions (preparatory work) for e-Accessibility

14. Necessary Activities

15. Partners in the Process

16. Thank you for your attention! Dražen KušenState Archives in Osijek31000 Osijek, K. Firingera 1drazen.kusen@dao.hr