1. Online Access to Estonian
Archives: State of the Art
ICARUS #19 | 5th co:op partner meeting
co:operative Estonia
Tartu, 29.05.2017
Tõnis Türna
The National Archives of Estonia

2. 2004: search catalogue
2005: digital content
2009: online reading room
2010: photo collection
2011: map collection
2011: films, sounds and
videos
www.ra.ee

3. 9 mil. record titles
1999-2009 data input
2004 web interface
AIS 2.0 coming soon 
AIS http://ais.ra.ee/

4. • 17,5 mil. images
• Church books, censuses, military records, court files etc
SAAGA www.ra.ee/saaga

5. Fotis www.ra.ee/fotis
650 000 photos

6. Register of maps www.ra.ee/kaardid
• 145 000 descriptions
• 48 300 images

7. FIS www.eha.ee/fa/public
• 500 TB
• films, sound
recordings
and videos

8. VAU www.ra.ee/vau
• 2009 integrated databases, finding aids,
services
• 2013 loan management system

17. VISITS 2011-2015
ONLINE OFFLINE
2011 405 351 11 531
2012 1 227 183 9 997
2013 1 416 382 9890
2014 1 274 346 9589
2015 1 071 142 9939

20. Saaga 2011-2015

22. www.geni.com
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26. Some conclusions
• Variety of tools and services in place
• Success in in-house development
• New developments currently in progress
• Lot of visits, many devoted users
– Active user communities
– High potentsial for collaboration

27. Thank You for attention!
tonis.tyrna@ra.ee