The Republic-level workshop and conference on Creation and Use of Digital Copies of Archival Documents

On 6 December 2019 the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry (the Department) held the Republic-level Workshop and Conference on Creation and Use of Digital Copies of Archival Documents.

The event brought together representatives of central, regional and local state archives from all six regions in Belarus and the city of Minsk – heads and specialists in creation and use of digital copies of archival documents, in all 49 people. Representatives of the Department included First Deputy Director O. A. Ledovskaya and Deputy Director A. E. Tsvetkov.
The workshop program was very informative. The participants heard reports and speeches by members of the Department and all central and regional state archives.

The results of the ten-year scheduled work in creation of digital copies of archival records were summarized by the Head of Records Preservation and Inventory at the Department A. V. Kochetkova. She noted that this kind of work is presently reflected in the main annual indexes of the state archival institutions and in the target indexes of the Culture of Belarus State Program for 2016-2020, adopted by the resolution of the Council of Ministers of 4 March 2016 No. 180. Digitization of archival records is being executed by the Republic-level Technical Laboratory of Security Microfilming and Records Restoration, the Central Laboratory of Microfilming and Restoration of Records of the National Archival Fonds and by 15 state archives. Digital copies have been created for 35 919 paper storage items, constituting 16 % of the total amount of reference copies. The overall information has reached 6,6 terabyte. The Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Records created digital reference copies for 97 % of photo and sound records and 100 % video records.

Read the full text of the workshop synopsis in the Russian version of the website.