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Archives management is the area of management concerned with the maintenance and use of archives.It is concerned with acquisition, care, arrangement, description and retrieval of records once they have been transferred from an organisation to the archival repository.
The first step in archival processing is to survey the collection. The goal of a survey is to gain an understanding of the originator, determine the context of the creation of the collection, to observe the material's overall size and scope, to ascertain if the collection has access limitations, to locate any existing finding aids submitted with the collection, and to discover any underlying ...
Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF) is an XML standard for encoding information about the creators of archival materials – i.e., a corporate body, person or family -- including their relationships to (a) resources (books, collections, papers, etc.) and (b) other corporate bodies, persons and families.
Many—especially professional—archives are created by official bodies (governments, education institutions, businesses). Some archives are held as private collections. Some archives are dedicated to documenting and preserving specific community memories. Many such community archives embrace a participatory culture.
The AtoM (previously ICA-AtoM) is a project originated by the International Council on Archives (ICA) that aimed to provide free license software that allows institutions to disseminate their archival holdings on the web. [2] Its last version in collaboration with the ICA was Release 1.3.2. [3]
Archive-it Service: The aim of the project is to collect and to archive digital documents and websites having "cultural interest" for Italian history and culture, according with the principles of the national legal deposit law. The Archive-it Collection is publicly available. Web Archiving Project (WARP), The National Diet Library, Japan [42 ...
McMaster Postcard Project [70] is a platform created by the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections at the McMaster University Library for crowdsourcing information about an archival collection of historical postcards, providing information on the card's country, province and city of origin, date, and other pertinent ...
Archival science, or archival studies, is the study and theory of building and curating archives, which are collections of documents, recordings, photographs and various other materials in physical or digital formats. To build and curate an archive, one must acquire and evaluate the materials, and be able to access them later.