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The article examines digitization and management of Austrian church archives. Legal confines on Austrian archives are scrutinized, responses to questionnaires of Austrian church archivists on questions such as collaboration between archive staff and their information technology departments are analyzed, and the DIMAG archives software is reviewed.

The article discusses the digitization of ecclesiastical archives in Austria. According to the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Archives of the Catholic Archives, the archives are memorials of the Christian communities and are an important cultural property as well as cultural factors for the new evangelization. In the administration of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, computers have been used to produce electronically created material since 1990.

The article discusses the optimization of the development of archival records in the context of the establishment of international standards and the aim for making archival work more efficient. Special focus is put on the process of preparing a strategy for archival resources development of the Archive of the Salzburg Archdiocese (AES). The phases of this process are described, including the investigation and analysis of the current situation and determining concrete strategies and methods for improving this situation by recognizing priorities and defining the intensity of the process.

The article presents a report from the March 1-2, 2016 annual conference in Potsdam, Germany of the "Archivierung von Unterlagen aus digitalen Systemen" (AUdS) digital archives working group. Topics of presentations delivered included the use of the Pre Ingest Toolset software for structuring filesystems at the Bundesarchiv German national archives, the development of the file filtration and sorting software tool for archives at the startext GmbH company, and digitization of the collections of small archives.