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Explore the rich history and influences of Croatian religious communities and their archives, with a focus on e-Accessibility and collaboration between state and religious institutions. Learn about the importance of preserved archives and access challenges.
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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
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 institutionsas 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 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
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.
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
Some Illustrations of Materials in Archivesof 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 worldwhich take care of religious heritage archive
A material assumptions (preparatory work) for e-Accessibility
Thank you for your attention! Dražen KušenState Archives in Osijek31000 Osijek, K. Firingera 1drazen.kusen@dao.hr