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How does the new BSH Corporate Archive collaborate with the corporate archives of the original mother companies? The principal factor linking the Bosch corporate archive and the BSH Corporate Archive is the archiving software itself. In order to obtain access to the documents about Bosch home appliances in the Bosch corporate archive, the BSH Corporate Archive had to be granted authorization to use Bosch’s archiving software. This software solution was developed internally by Bosch and originally based on a document management system. This was the topic on which the most frequent contact took place, particularly during the system changeover. After several coordination meetings, the BSH Corporate Archive was allowed to use the Bosch intranet to access an approved range of materials in the Bosch archive – particularly photos and brochures – and utilize the digital copies stored there.

Objects are a further important area of collaboration, with both Bosch and Siemens. Because the BSH Corporate Archive doesn’t have its own collection of objects, any offers or requests regarding such items, either external or internal, have to be passed on to the corporate archives of Bosch or Siemens. These archives check if the object in question is already part of the collection. If not, they decide whether or not it is interesting enough to be added or acquired.