��Labour’s Memory: Insights into a collaborative project on digitising, processing and giving�access to blue collar union sources
Thijs van Leeuwen / Andreas Marquet
54th Annual Conference of the International
Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)
Paris, 2024-09-12
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What is the goal? Give online access to Annual Reports/Reports on Activities and Financial Reports of Unions from a Global to a Local Level, enhance with DH tools
For whom? Academics (Labour Historians), Labour Unions and their members� also for a more general public interested in labour history
Who is involved? Archivists, Labour Historians, Computational Linguists, Image Processing Experts, Information Management Experts, and Focus Group Users
Which archives Swedish Labour Movement’s Archive and Library, the Popular Movements’
are involved? Archive in Uppsala, the Archiv of Social Democracy and the International Institute of Social History.
Who is funding �the project? Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
How long does it take? 01.01.2022-31.12.2024; Go Live 1/2025
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IFTU – International Federation of Trade Unions
ICFTU – International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
PSI - Public Services International
EI - Education International
ISETU - The International Secretariat of Entertainment Trade Unions
PTTI - Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International
IFJ - International Federation of Journalists
ILF - International Landworkers Federation
FIM - International Federation of Musicians
ITGLWF - International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation
ITF - International Transport Workers Federation
IUL - International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations
BWI - Building- and Woodworkers International
FIET - International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees
IMF - International Metalworkers' Federation
FIA - International Federation of Actors
IGF - International Graphical Federation
Swedish local unions (ARBARK)
Uppsala Unions (Local Clubs, Sections)
Activity and Financial Reports:
From Global to Local
Some numbers:
Covered time span: 1880-2020
ca. 900 organisations
amount of pages (still growing):
110.000 AdsD
40.000 FAC
8.000 IISH
70.000 (out of 500.000) ARBARK
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Digitisation of Reports (handwritten and printed)
Processing
Metadata Collation
Importing into LM Portal
Long Term Preservation (not part of the project)
What‘s going on?
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Some challenges
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How to participate?