The Document Reproduction Service: 55 Years working in the Preservation and Dissemination of Archival Heritage José Ramón Cruz Mundet Subdirector General de los Archivos Estatales Ministry of Culture. Spain Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas State Archives Head Office 2007
The SRD is a dependent unit of the State Archives Office,, whose function is the reproduction of Spanish Archival Heritage,, with the double objective of: assuring its Preservation providing knowledge about and making this Heritage publicly available.
COMPETENCES runs and develops different Microfilming and Digitalisation projects Offers technical consultancy to the different Archives and other centres planning and coordination of the different Microfilming and Digitalisation projects custody of the Security Microfilm and Digital Archives
ORIGINS OF THE SRD
1950 Central Microfilm Archive
1952 National Service of Documentary and Bibliographic Information Microfilm Department (I) Security Archive Complement Archive
1952 National Service of Documentary and Bibliographic Information Microfilm Department (II)
1972 National Microfilm Service (I)
1972 National Microfilm Service (II)
1972 National Microfilm Service (III)
1987 Document Reproduction Service
THE MICROFILM COLLECTIONS AT THE DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION SERVICE (I) 77 million of photograms and some 1473 km of film, which if transferred to paper would entail some 15,400 linear metres of shelves. The microfilmed collections come from over 354 archives and libraries
THE MICROFILM COLLECTIONS AT THE DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION SERVICE (II)
THE MICROFILM COLLECTIONS AT THE DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION SERVICE (III)
THE MICROFILM COLLECTIONS AT THE DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION SERVICE (IV)
THE MICROFILM COLLECTIONS AT THE DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION SERVICE (VI)
THE MICROFILM COLLECTIONS AT THE DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION SERVICE (VII)
FROM MICROFILMING TO DIGITALISATION (I)
FROM MICROFILMING TO DIGITALISATION (II) 1985 Automation Project for the General Archive of the Indies 2000 AER Project (Spanish Archives Online Project) 2007 PARES (Spanish( Archives Portal)
FROM MICROFILMING TO DIGITALISATION (III)
FROM MICROFILMING TO DIGITALISATION (IV)
DIGITALISATION PROJECTS TODAY (I) Through PARES, it is currently possible to access two million records and thirteen million images online. By the end of the present year of 2007, forecasts state that the number of records will leap to three million and, as regards the number of images, a further six million images are planned for access
DIGITALISATION PROJECTS TODAY (II) Codices of the National Historic Archive Maps, Plans and Drawings of the General Archive of Simancas Collection of municipal seals from the National Historic Archive National Tourism Board s Collection Posters from the Spanish Civil War General Responses to the Cadastre of the Marquis of Ensenada
Codices of the National Historic Archive
Maps, Plans and Drawings of the General Archive of Simancas
Collection of municipal seals from the National Historic Archive
National Tourism Board s Collection
Posters from the Spanish Civil War
General Responses to the Cadastre of the Marquis of Ensenada
Currently Projects Thirteen projects (8,201,853 images in process): Files of the Knights from the different Military Orders that are kept at the National Historic Archive The consultation books from the Royal Council that are kept at the National Historic Archive The Aristocracy A litigations from the Sala de Alcaldes de Hijosdalgo of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid Documentation related to the Spanish Civil War and Exile located at the Archive of the International Committee of the Red Cross at its Geneva headquarters
Thank You very much for your attention!