Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (ELO) is part of the municipality of Leiden. ELO performs services related to historical preservation, archaeology and archiving for the municipality of Leiden, as well as ten other surrounding municipalities and implementation services such as the fire department and municipal health services.
ELO is responsible for physical archives and digital (born) archives. In accordance with the Dutch Public Records Act 1995 the e-depot of ELO functions as a repository for our partners. In addition ELO houses private archives. The e-depot, hosted in the cloud edition of Preservica, serves as a repository for digital born archives, or digitized archives of which the original physical document has been replaced by the digital one (and the physical document destroyed).