Approaches to Cross-Collection Searching

A workshop on strategies for searching historical collections – both traditional and digital, titled Approaches to Cross-Collection Searching, organised by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) will be held in person at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, Hungary, and online on

• March 24: 15:30–17:25 CET
• March 25: 09:30–11:00 CET

To receive the meeting link, please email: secretariat@cerl.org

The detailed schedule is available on the CERL seminar website.

Workshop Description:

Ever since the introduction of electronic resources and tools, cultural heritage institutions have been keen on creating digital infrastructures for trans-institutional and transdisciplinary collaboration in different fields of cultural heritage, bringing together specialists from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, scholars, curators, archivists, and conservators. The European Union is strongly supporting this approach, by funding Europeana and more recently the Cultural Heritage Cloud, with the even broader aim of ‘fostering a secure and sustainable digital infrastructure, digital skills and uptake of technologies by businesses, in particular SMEs’. During this CERL workshop we will examine different successful approaches to cross-collection searching, with a reflection on what has gone before, the types of infrastructure that can currently be achieved, and what might be developed in the future. Speakers include Saskia Scheltjens, Sally Chambers and Robert Sanderson.