Networks of archives, histories of networks
https://milli.link/sessions2026/
TIMING
Tue, June 9, 2026. 5:30 PM Indian Standard Time (IST)
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Free and open to the public. Register for online event: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9sb3OIOsT8iItZF420-D-g
OVERVIEW
Join the Milli Archives Foundation on International Archives Day to explore networks of archives around the world, and the histories of these networks.
In 1946, soon after the Second World War and the formation of the United Nations, Solon J. Buck, the archivist of the United States, delivered a now-famous speech to the Society of American Archivists. He urged for a “consideration of the unity of archives”. In what he called The Archivist’s ‘One World’, he envisioned a future where archives always speak to each other. Together, they were the “archives of mankind, the official record of human experience in organized living”: https://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.10.1.g1vw8301t1150450.
Today, many networks of archives respond to this imagination. In Milli Sessions 2026, we invite you to join a panel that reflects on various networks of archives. We will be looking at the motivations and histories of these functioning networks, what makes them work, what challenges do they encounter, and how do we get the public to engage with this imagination of collective recorded memory.
NETWORKS:
AIM25 https://atom.aim25.com/, a consortium of the archives of 150 cultural organisations in London.
Archives Portal Europe https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/about-us/, for millions of archival materials held in thousands of archival institutions scattered across Europe and beyond.
South Asia Open Archives https://southasiaoa.org/, a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia.
PANELISTS:
- Geoff Browell https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/geoff-browell
- James Nye https://southernasia.uchicago.edu/nye-james/
- Kerstin Arnold https://pro.europeana.eu/person/kerstin-arnold
- Moderated by Liz Stainforth https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/staff/464/dr-liz-stainforth, who will also reflect on her work on aggregators of cultural heritage, including Trove in Australia, and Europeana.
Organized by the Milli Archives Foundation, https://milli.link/about, a non-profit network of archives and archivists dedicated to building, nurturing and sustaining archives in India.
OTHER EVENTS:
In addition to the above public event, the Milli Member Network will also be meeting online on June 10, 2026 for developing the next stage of the Archives Health Tool, benchmarking to measure and strengthen the quality of an archive. For more details, visit https://milli.link/aht.
