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Digitization of archival materials

In order to preserve the original archives and to facilitate access to important documents, some archive files or parts of archive files are digitised. The scanning of photographic collections, necessarily accompanied by their cataloguing, is a long-term process. The digitisation of documentary archives must be preceded by the processing of the collections in question and, in the case of previously processed collections, by a thorough check or re-inventory. The images taken are then linked to the relevant units of description in the archival aids. Digitised photographs are continuously published on the Archival Vademecum web portal, while digitised documentary archival material is published in the Archival Vademecum in logical units (entire fonds or parts thereof).

It is assumed that all photographic collections stored at the Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the CAS will be digitised gradually. Documentary documents, which constitute the vast majority of archival materials, will be digitised only selectively. The basic criteria for such selection are several: physical degradation of archival materials, historical and informational value of documents, research interest, previous inventory of the collection. According to these criteria, priorities will be set in the order of the archival files to be digitised.

By the end of 2022, nearly 30,500 digitised photographs were accessible to the research community. Of the documentary archival records, over 200 inventory records were digitally accessible in the same period, many of them comprising dozens to hundreds of individual images.

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Listing of digitised collections

Name of the fonds
Period
Extent
Characteristics of the digitised items
Vademecum
Benes Edvard IV/3. Photographs
1883-[1990]
3094 records
Thematically arranged photographs from personal collection
Detail fondu
Benešová Hana
1900-1974
16 records
Part of personal documents
Detail fondu
Benešová Hana (photographs)
1900-1974
36 records
Photographs from personal collection
Detail fondu
Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts
1888-1954
92 records digitized so far
Articles of Incorporation, minutes of general meetings, administrative committee meetings, Class I and Class II meetings
Detail fondu
Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts - collection of photographs
1888-1954
10 records
Torso of a collection of photographs of members of the Academy and other distinguished persons
Detail fondu
Ferles Miloslav (photographs)
1944-2009
60 records
Photographs from personal fund
Detail fondu
Fiala Jan (collection - photographs)
1906-2004
161 records
Photographs from the collection resulting from MUDr. Jan Fiala's contact with Edvard and Hana Beneš in 1945-1974 and from Fiala's interest in Beneš's personality
Detail fondu
Photo Collection - Reports of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
1955-1996
1115 records digitized so far
Collection of original photographs taken in the press-promotion department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Detail fondu
Bohumil Vavroušek's photo collection
1900-1938
5087 records digitized so far
Purpose-built collection of author's and foreign photographs on the topics of literary history, visual arts, art monuments, local history and ethnography
Detail fondu
Commission of the Presidium of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for Water Management (survey of the Orlik floodplain)
1929-1966
107 records digitized so far
Gradual digitisation of the entire collection
Detail fondu
Commission of the Presidium of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for Water Management (survey of the Orlik floodplain) - photographs
1954-1966
1739 records digitized so far
Photographs from the archive fund
Detail fondu
Royal Czech Society of Sciences - collection of photographs
1766-1953
169 records
Torso of a collection of photographs of members of the Society and other prominent persons
Detail fondu
Maffie. Edvard Benes (photographs)
1886-1919
21 entries
Photographs from the archive fund
Detail fondu
Masaryk Garrigue Tomáš
[1845]-1987
11729 records digitized so far
Photographs from the archive fund
Detail fondu
Nejedlý Zdeněk (photographs before 1946)
1818-2018
2587 records
Part of a collection of photographic archival material from the personal collection
Detail fondu
Niederle Lubor. Archaeological research of Čeněk Chvojka in Ukraine (photos)
[1885]-1965
97 entries
Thematically focused set of photographs from personal collection
Detail fondu
Smutný Jaromír (photographs)
1883-1949
745 records
Photographs from personal collection
Detail fondu
Táborský Eduard
1919-1947
1 record
Page from diary
Detail of the fund
Institute of T. G. Masaryk I (47/1, photographs)
1881-1954
102 records
File of photographs from T. G. Masaryk's visit to Palestine in 1927
Detail fondu
T. G. Masaryk Institute I (47/2, photographs)
1881-1954
3696 records
A collection of photographs from the archival collection, documenting mainly the personality of T. G. Masaryk
Detail fondu