Production and use of electronic documents in the Norwegian Parliament Bjørn R. Rønning Parliamentary Archivist, Oslo Stortinget

Production and use of electronic documents in the Storting 1. Government´s documents 2. Parliament´s documents 3. Unprinted documents 4. Retrospective digitisation of historical documents

Government’s Documents Example: Printed document. This is done by a laboratory at The National Library of Norway. We reiceive the result on CD-R.

Parliament’s Documents HTML and PDF Example typewritten manuscript with corrections. This is done by a group of particularly experienced members of the stenographic reporters, working in their spare time. The quality control includes a standardization according to a certain layout.

Parliament’s Documents PDF and paper

Stortinget on Internet Propositions from the Government to the Parliament: http://odin.dep.no/odin/norsk/publ/ index-b-n-a.html Recommendations from the standing committees to the plenary and minutes from the sittings of the Parliament: http://www.stortinget.no/saker/innstillinger/ innstillinger.html http://www.stortinget.no/saker/referater/ referater.html

Digitisation of historical documents History of the National Flagg of Norway

Digitisation of historical documents Constitutional amendment to allow Jews entry into Norway

Digitisation of registers to the printed proceedings of Parliament 1814-1891