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The Research Centre for East European Studies together with several partner archives from different countries is establishing a joint community space on the history of dissent, human rights activism and samizdat/samvydav in the former Soviet Union.

The virtual platform will unite and bring together information and metadata about physically separated but semantically connected archival holdings on the history of Soviet dissent: different types and genres of documents, scattered in personal collections of soviet dissenters, as well as samizdat collections. Users of the portal will be able to search the full range of archival materials owned by different institutions through one meta-catalogue.  

In addition to the meta-search engine, the platform plans to provide further services for researchers, such as pooling information, publicizing archive holdings, providing expertise and much more in english language.
The cooperation of the partner archives serves to bundle expertise, exchange know-how, coordinate work processes and pass on best-practice procedures in the field of collecting, preserving, indexing and researching dissent and samizdat.
 
The project is the second phase of Discuss Data, a DFG-funded project of the FSO Bremen and the State and University Library Göttingen.
 
Project team:
Contact person / academic support: Dr. Manuela Putz
Technical development: Felix Herrmann