La investigación histórica y los archivos en Internet. La presencia del Archivo Histórico Nacional en el Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES)

Abstract

On-line open access to the historical archives means today an access to the so-called 'Humanity's Documentary Heritage'. European archives are making significant efforts in order to link their databases and also to facilitate historical research via Web. The European Archives Web Portal (EAPnet) is a project financed by the the European Commission and coordinated by Spain. Its objective is to build an Internet platform which, in close cooperation with the EUROPEANA initiative, will allow to 14 European National Archives to create a common access point to European archival descriptions and digital collections. This is the case of PARES, the Spanish Archives Web Portal which facilitate access to nineteen million digital images and four million archival descriptions of 11 Spanish national archives. The Archivo Histórico Nacional (the Spanish National Archives, Madrid) is part of the project with 4.466 fonds and collections from the ninth to the twentieth centuries. A knowledge of the archivist’s methodology will allow to a better access to the PARES 'Dynamic Inventory'.