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Transcribus with three Norwegian models
The program called "Transkribus" was developed at the University of Innsbruck with support from the EU. The Swedish National Archives has now contributed three text recognition models that can be used by...
Arkivverket wants to make another census fully searchable
Work on the 1920 census is nearing completion. While we wait for the 1930 census to be made available, the National Archives will start work on another census...
The digitization of the traitors' archive will take at least two years.
This spring, Slekt1 reported that the National Archives of Norway has set itself the goal of digitizing the entire traitor archive. Around 90,000 cases will be published on the Digital Archive. Many have...
The Crown Prince visits the National Archives
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon will visit the National Archives at Sognsvann in Oslo on September 1, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. The National Archives holds Norway's largest collection of medieval documents. During the period...
Almost no digital archives from the private sector have been preserved in...
This is shown by figures from the 2020 Archive Statistics. "We risk losing contemporary history if we are unable to secure more digital archives from private...
Knut Hamsun's treason case is now available to everyone
The Swedish National Archives has made author Knut Hamsun's treason case available to everyone in the Digital Archive. "This is of both war and cultural historical importance," says author and...
Digitizing the traitor archive
The National Archives of Norway consists of around 90,000 cases, and the Archives now aims to scan all of them for publication in the Digital Archives. It is...
Arkivverket establishes itself in Mo
Two hundred years ago, Henrik Wergeland, the country's first national archivist, sat at Akershus Fortress in Kristiania and looked after the nation's memory. Now the national archivist Inga...
Warns against uncritical use of transcribed material from the Digital Archive
A few years ago, the National Archives initiated a collaboration with Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch (AMF) to transcribe large parts of the scanned sources....
Peace Prize archives digitized
The Norwegian National Archives has entered into an agreement with the Nobel Institute to digitize historical nomination letters in the Digital Archives. Researchers from all over the world now do not have to travel to Oslo to...
