Archive(s) et archivage(s)
The word “archive” doesn’t belong to archivists or to historians any more, and this has been the case for quite a while now. The archive left a confined and hushed area to be shared on the web space. Each actor (creator, user, manager) has his/her own view of the archive.There are a lot of kinds of...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de liège
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Signata |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/signata/2992 |
| Summary: | The word “archive” doesn’t belong to archivists or to historians any more, and this has been the case for quite a while now. The archive left a confined and hushed area to be shared on the web space. Each actor (creator, user, manager) has his/her own view of the archive.There are a lot of kinds of archives/records. They can be seen as traces of activity, as intellectual and physical entities, or as a political, economical and social issue; it depends on the idea you have of them and on the idea you give of them, according to the way they are created, disseminated and stored.Theoretical papers and professional/personal practices suggest finding out the meaning of so many meanings of archives at the beginning of our 21st century.An archival document is a real object with a proper location. Whatever the medium may be, the document or the file is stored somewhere. But where does it come from? Who put it there? Who created it? Is it realistic to speak of the archive without speaking of archiving?The word “archivage” (more or less “archiving” in English) is a rather new word in the French language, born in the middle of the last century. Archivage is also related to various things, depending on who is speaking: transfer to the archive, back-up, archivization… The act of “archiving” may be considered as a secondary matter because the only important thing is the result, i.e. the archive itself. It can also be seen as an essential process, due to the fact that it embeds the very act of choosing what is kept in the archive and what is left aside. And archiving is sometimes regarded as central, when the process of memorisation may be, for somebody, more important than the record created.This paper seeks to give an overview of these different meanings of archive and archiving, through the link between the object and the process. |
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| ISSN: | 2032-9806 2565-7097 |