1. Project: Improving accessibility of digitally created archives
Presentation for the Nordic Elark-seminar in Iceland 2011 Olav Hagen Sataslåtten Seksjonssjef, Digital Depot

2. Our application is shaped in accordance with core principles of ‘The National Archives Strategic Plan 2014, The Digital Challenges ofthe National Archives’.
Project: Improving accessibility of digitally created archives

3. The National Archives shall ensure that archives which have significant cultural or scientific value, or that maintains administrative, legal or welfare-related documentation requirements will be preserved and made available for research.
Project: Improving accessibility of digitally created archives

4. This is the overall strategy of development up until 2014.
The development of the Search & Viewer-module in order to provide easier access to our material for individual researcher and research institutions and projects are part of this scope.
Project: Improving accessibility of digitally created archives

5. With its national responsibility, the National Archive must meet the expectations of contribution to common solutions in the areas of records creation, long term preservation and the making available of digital information to researchers.
Project: Improving accessibility of digitally created archives

7. The Search & Viewer Module will be one of the key elements in providing relevant information from our digital repositories towards the requirements of each individual researcher.
Accesscontrol will be managed by permissions and roles based on existing agreements.
To enable this, functional interface and common structures in a number of areas such as metadata structures will be implemented.
Project: Improving accessibility of digitally created archives

8. Modus operandi
A repository object is received, validated and stored in the Digital Repository, including its information structure.
A Submission Agreement (SA) is made between the current producer and the National Archives. The Agreement provides responsibility for the material.
A researcher might formulate a query related to information on one or several archive objects.
The Search & Viewer Module will return a compilation of the archival objects found in the shape of specified metadata related to the current archival objects

9. Modus operandi
Options will range from information about a number of cases involving multiple parties or a comprehensive, overall picture of an institution or individuals involvement in one particular case or area.
Searches will be done by navigating in information presentation structures in a "tree form" ranging downwards, but also from a downloaded package of files.

10. Example Sequences
A researcher chooses –based on queries -to request the downloading of one or more archival objects.
The Digital Repository receives the order, checks that it is accepted within the frame of agreements embedded in the contracts or agreements register.
A query is created based on the order from the researcher or research institution, and the search in the Digital repositories is performed.
The search results are delivered to the Search & Viewer Module, and then made available to the researcher.

11. Example Sequences
We will a continuous development of our online catalog and source site in conjunction with the module we are seeking funding for, thereby facilitating a stringent solution in which researchers may access our material.
Researchers will be given access to use the “open” parts of the Digital Repositories online. To accommodate statistical needs they can generate aggregates online.
The same applies for researchers who will need to access the closed parts of repository. This will potentially be made available for international research in cooperation with Norwegian research institutions.

12. Example Sequences
The present application for funding describes the outline of a generic solution which potentially embraces a wide specter of research disciplines.
The solution will have functionality that encompasses research in the solution itself and the fields of research by which the solution is assisting.
By making the digital archives more accessible, we are making it possible to accommodate the researchers‘ requirements for research material in a much more precise and effective manner.
Implementation of a digital tool constitutes in itself a more adequate method of access, introducing an instrument developed specifically to meet the various requirements that a researcher will undoubtedly present in a wider and wider scope onto The National Archives.

13. Vision
We are certain that the development of a Search & Viewer Module for our Digital Repositories will accommodate a much wider and useful platform for individual researchers and research institutions alike.
The demands for adequate digital tools for the usage of digital material is ever-expanding, and the present application to Forskningsrådet highlights on its own accord the wide implications of needs related to accessibility and user-friendliness.

14. The future
The National Archives has already acquired electronic archives which have been of interest to researchers, and our national legislation safeguards the fact that we will receive more and more in the years to come.
It is therefore of national importance that we will be able to make this material available for research, and the present application for funding of this module must be seen within that scope.