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 Alessandro Alfier (Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance) The ethical responsibilities of archivists for the future intelligibility of digital historical archives Rosa de Lorenzo (Banca d’Italia) From digitisation to datafication: The experience of the Banca d’Italia Historical Archive and its future projects Q&A/Discussion 11:15 Coffee 11:45 Session 2 Diana Ciolan (National Bank of Moldova) From digitization to datafication: Implementing and advancing an electronic archive at the National Bank of Moldova Christiaan van Bochove (Utrecht University) & Leon van Wissen (University of Amsterdam) Datafying the Amsterdam Wisselbank Q&A/Discussion Moderator: Taddeo Molino Lova (Mediobanca) 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Session 3 David Brown (Trinity College) At scale and across languages: AI, concordance, and archival reconstruction Bas Vercruysse (Ghent University: BELHISFIRM) Belgian company records as linked data Q&A/Discussion Moderator: Carmen Hofmann (eabh) 14:15 Coffee 14:45 Closing Table Moderator: Andreas Kakridis (Bank of Greece) 15:45 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