For the CERL Manuscripts Expert Goup, National Contacts and National Backgrounds, press here
Ediffah is a national initiative to create a service that can give common access to archival and manuscript collections in Swedish research libraries. Besides the Royal Library (Kungliga Biblioteket) in Stockholm, the university libraries in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Lund, Uppsala, and Örebro take part in the project.
The XML format used by Ediffah is EAD, and it the explicit goal of Ediffah that its records can be harvested by the National Archives of Sweden Database (NAD).
The acronym "Ediffah" (En digital infrastruktur för forskningsbibliotekens arkiv- och handskriftssamlingar) means "A digital infrastructure for the archives and manuscript collections of research libraries".
To see the current number of records harvested in the CERL Portal from this OAI-harvested database, select the database and write 'manuscript:true' in any of the search boxes and press Search: the current number of records will be returned.
The CERL Portal only searches in the basic parts of the EAD-record. For full search facility, search directly in Ediffah
There is currently no English interface available in Ediffah.
For more information (in Swedish) on Ediffah: http://www.ediffah.org/
The National Archives of Sweden Database (NAD): www.nad.ra.se (Swedish interface)
The Swedish Database of letters in 5 insitutions (Kinda lokalhistoriska arkiv, Kungl. biblioteket, Linköpings stiftsbibliotek, Nationalmuseum, and Riksarkivet) (Swedish interface)