Datafication & interoperability in historical archives

eabh financial archives workshop

11 Jun 2026 at 9:00am

Milan, Italy

eabh in cooperation with Mediobanca.

This workshop explores how digitisation, datafication and interoperability are reshaping financial and business archives.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to share hands on experiences, challenges and solutions for improving data quality and cross-institutional connectivity.

Programme

09:00 Coffee 09:30 Welcome speech tbc (Mediobanca) 09:45 Opening Taddeo Molino Lova (Mediobanca) 10:00 Keynote Francesca Tomasi (University of Bologna) 10:30 Session 1 The ethical responsibilities of archivists for the future intelligibility of digital historical archives Alessandro Alfier (Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance) From digitisation to datafication: The experience of the Banca d’Italia Historical Archive and its future projects Rosa de Lorenzo (Banca d’Italia) Q&A/Discussion 11:15 Coffee 11:45 Session 2 From digitization to datafication: Implementing and advancing an electronic archive at the National Bank of Moldova Diana Ciolan (National Bank of Moldova) Datafying the Amsterdam Wisselbank Christiaan van Bochove (Utrecht University) & Leon van Wissen (University of Amsterdam) Q&A/Discussion Moderator: Taddeo Molino Lova (Mediobanca) 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Session 3 At scale and across languages: AI, concordance, and archival reconstruction David Brown (Trinity College) Belgian company records as linked data Bas Vercruysse (Ghent University: BELHISFIRM) Q&A/Discussion Moderator: Carmen Hofmann (eabh) 14:15 Coffee 14:45 Beyond digitisation: Interoperability and data reuse in historical research Victoria Lemieux (University of British Columbia) 15:15 Closing Table Moderator: Andreas Kakridis (Bank of Greece) 5:45 End of workshop day 16:00 General Members’ Meeting 17:00 Academic Council Meeting 19:30 Conference Dinner If not otherwise specified, all events take place at Mediobanca, Via Filodrammatici 3, Milan Dress Code: Smart Business