EHRI Czech National Node
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Research infrastructure
The EHRI Czech national node has been part of the research infrastructure LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports since 2023.
EHRI was funded by the European Commission under FP7, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
Since 2018, EHRI has been on the Roadmap of European research infrastructures. In January 2025, EHRI reached another milestone by transforming into a permanent organisation, an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). The Czech Republic actively contributed to its establishment, becoming one of the ten founding countries.
Each EHRI national node is led by a National Coordinator, and since 2025, the National Coordinators have been brought together in the National Coordinators Committee.
Another governing body of EHRI-ERIC is the General Assembly, which brings together representatives of ministries and national experts in the field from the countries participating in EHRI-ERIC.
Main goals and services
EHRI-CZ provides the following types of services:
- Makes EHRI data and services available, including EHRI Portal, EHRI Document Blog, EHRI Editions, EHRI Geospatial Repository, Conny Kristel Scholarship, and others.
- Creates data on sources on the history of the Holocaust in the Czech lands and uploads them to the EHRI Portal.
- Links and enhances the victim databases and methodologically supports their further development.
- Applies digital methods to the digitised sources, including automatic text and speech recognition, identification of places, historical actors, keywords, etc.
- Supports research using spatial methods and interactive maps, including the MemoMAP application.
