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The article presents a report from a December 14-15, 2015 membership meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information on the expansion of the Archivportal-D online archives portal in Washington, D.C. Topics of presentations delivered include the use of stable identifiers in German archives software, the virtual exhibition application Spotlight and the viewer application Mirador, and the Library Digital Repository of the University of Chicago, Illinois.

The article examines the Gemeinsame Normdatei data standard for archives and its regulation of the "Match & Merge" automated metadata comparison mapping and value add workflow for archival data at the D-Projekt online archives portal. The results of Match & Merge on archival materials from the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, the Hessische Landesarchiv, and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft society archives are analyzed.

The article presents a report from a May 2016 "Archives in Digital Age" workshop at the national archives in Prague, Czech Republic on web portals and digital reading rooms at archives. Topics of presentations delivered included the searcharchives.pl Polish archives portal, the right of citizens to access electronic archives, and the Czech national archives website http://portal.nacr.cz.

The article examines the use of the microblogging website Twitter to market the Archivportal-D online archive portal at www.archivportal-d.de. The author considers the marketing of archives and social media marketing more broadly, communication between archivists enabled by the platform is described, and information is offered on the use of Twitter in the crowd sourcing of the identity of an unidentified photograph of nobleman Heinrich von Oranien Nassau.