In order to keep remembering why it was judged so important to build a new Europe 'out of the crematoria of Auschwitz', the 'vital link' between Europe's past and Europe's present should, according to the British historian Tony Judt, be taught over and over again (cf. Judt 2005: 830 f.). Every generation of European historians should re-interpret the message of the Second World War and of the H...

The preservation of historical materials, in a variety of forms and formats, is both a cultural necessity and a central responsibility for professional archivists. Archivists need to define for themselves just what archival preservation entails and assess the capacity of the thousands of archives, large and small, scattered and isolated from each other, to develop and administer sophisticated p...

Our scientific meetings, IT publications, and even the media are awash with new terminology and possibilities about how “a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research” made possible through distributed science collaborations enabled by the internet, viz., eScience, the grid, cyberinfrastructure, and virtual observatories. All of these new structures and tools depend critically on ...

The article is a review of the monograph “The history Batyushkins, an Omsk family” by historian Dmitry I. Petin. book was published in 2021. Some interesting and important pages regional culture 19th–20th centuries are associated with Batyushkin family so-called Batyushkin’s House (also known as Kolchak’s House). Using example life this family’s head, Kapiton Batyushkin, author shows how “socia...