November 2017 in Berlin
The first QueerSearch annual meeting took place under the title „Workshop for the networking of LGBTIQ* archives and collection institutions in German-speaking countries“ at FFBIZ – the feminist archive. The possibility of more intensive collaboration and a shared online platform were discussed for the first time.
The institutions presented their work and their holdings, and we discussed the META catalogue of the Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv (German Women’s Archive) as an example of a cooperative archival database. In the concluding plenary discussion, it became clear how worthwhile the exchange between the individual institutions is, even if it was not possible to reach immediate agreement on all points. Rather, the participants agreed that it would be extremely fruitful to continue the exchange, in order to develop a viable project step by step