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On September 25 in Florence the next Stakeholder Forum within the EU-funded project ARCHE (“Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe”) will take place in Florence. Dr. Thomas Aigner will co-chair the session on “Cultural Heritage an Governance”.

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From September 19-22, a major conference on citizen science in history will take place in Halle/DE. We'll be there, moderating a panel on "The digital transformation of archives" and participating in a round table on "Genetic and genealogical data between archives, citizen science and cutting-edge archaeogenetic research: linkage, ownership, ethics".

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From September 9-10, the world's most important organization for the digital transformation of archives will hold its annual European conference in Potsdam. We can't wait to see what exciting new developments await the archival world!

From September 2 to 4, 2024, the next Congress of Italian Church Archivists will be held in Naples. The main topic will be how current administrations deal with archiving their documents in the future. Our dear colleague Philipp Passecker from the Archives of the Diocese of St. Pölten will present his institution's project to transform its digital administration.

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The Time Machine Organisation was founded in 2019 and comprises a global network of more than 700 cultural heritage, research and industrial organisations. After almost five years, the fundamental strategic direction needs to be refocused and a new operational plan developed on this basis.

The Task Force therefore met in Vienna on 19/20 June to discuss and define the next steps. Dr Thomas Aigner will coordinate and lead the process in consultation with the TMO team.

In recognition of his outstanding merits to the digital transformation of archives, Dr Thomas Aigner will be awarded honorary membership of the Austrian Society for Family- and Regional History.

Dr. Thomas Aigner together with colleagues from ICA, Mexico and The Philippines as a panelist at Global Archives Panel Discussion at Roots Tech 2024, SLC/USA.

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Within the ceremonial opening of the innovative doctoral program „Visual Heritage“, a unique collaboration between the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and the Vienna University of Technology, Dr. Thomas Aigner will give the keynote lecture on „The power of big data of the past – Let´s build a Time Machine“.

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