Sharing knowledge
The collections department of the IISH is committed to international and national cooperation. To begin with, our open data policy makes this necessary, but in addition, heritage institutions have common interests that need to be promoted.
Active knowledge sharing is essential to stay up-to-date technically and methodologically.
The IISH is a member of the most relevant national and international archival and library networks and aims to be actively involved in them. Internationally, the institute strives to remain at the forefront of its field of expertise, for example in the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI), and among institutions engaged in data collection in the field of socio-economic history.
At the national level, the IISH is, and strives to be, an important knowledge centre in the archival and heritage world. Efforts in recent years have ensured that the IISH, as a heritage institution, well noticed by initiatives and organisations such as Archief2020, the Royal Association of the Netherlands Archive Sector (KVAN) and the Digital Heritage Network.
What makes our position unique is not only that we constitute a sizeable private archive, but also our integrated approach to material types, our direct link to the scientific community and our close involvement in digital humanities initiatives and research infrastructures such as CLARIAH and DARIAH.
