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FEBRUARY
Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski, PhD, is preparing a project of digitalization of the State Archives for Sławomir Radoń, PhD, the General Director of State Archives. It assumes the construction of a network of digital archives across Poland and establishment of the National Digital Archives, an institution to coordinate the archives’ works. The project becomes a component of a long-term plan of reforms of the State Archives, initiated by Mr Radoń in 2006.
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MARCH
The process of creation of digital repositories – the infrastructure necessary to store digital data is starting. The first institutions to create them are the Central Archives of Historical Records, Poznań State Archive, Lublin State Archive and Warsaw State Archive. At the same time, the Poznań State Archive is beginning to prepare the construction of a pilot digitalization laboratory.
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MAY – JUNE
The General Director of State Archives is appointing teams to build the “Integrated Archive Information System – ZoSIA” and the “Archive Digitalization System – SeDAn”. Their works are coordinated by Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski, PhD. At the meeting of the Archive Council, Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski, PhD, is presenting a project of the establishment of the National Digital Archives. The concept assumes that the Archives of Audiovisual Records, which were operating since 1955, will be transformed into the NDA to fulfil the tasks related to the operation of digital archives. The Archive Council unanimously supports the project and emphasises the need to establish a new institution.
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JULY
Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski, PhD, becomes the director of the Archives of Audiovisual Records. His task is to prepare the MDA for the transformation into the National Digital Archives. The assumptions to the prototype of the Integrated Archive Information System (ZoSIA) are being prepared.
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AUGUST
Sławomir Radoń, PhD, the General Director of State Archives, is filing an application to the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for the transformation of the Archives of Audiovisual Records into the National Digital Archives.
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SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER
During the 5th General Meeting of Polish Archivists in Olsztyn, Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski is presenting the assumptions of the project of creation of the National Digital Archives. The Central Archives of Historical Records, Poznań State Archive, Lublin State Archive and Warsaw State Archive are completing the construction of digital repositories. At the same time, owing to the support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the programme is joined by three other archives: Archives of New Records, Kraków State Archive and Wrocław State Archive.
The work on the creation of a central server room for the purposes of the National Digital Archives is beginning.
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NOVEMBER
The Poznań State Archive is finishing the works on the digitalization laboratory. AAR are finishing the construction of a laboratory for a mass digitalization of microfilms and creation of microfilms of digital materials.