Open Society Archives Collects and Shares on a Grand Scale

February 14, 2013

Open Society Archives is participating in a large-scale digital archival project with 11 other European social history institutions, entitled the Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE, http://www.peoplesheritage.eu/). As part of this project, OSA has put 80,128 documents online. These include 137 forensic reports produced by Physicians for Human Rights in Bosnia and Hercegovina between 1997 and 1999, 70,292 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty items, and the so-called Paranoia Archive, which comprises 58 educational films on atomic, biological, and chemical warfare released between 1964 and 1982 as part of a campaign to educate the Hungarian public on how to protect itself against weapons of mass destruction. OSA expects to make about 40,000 more documents available online this spring.