Reopening Archives

Outline

• why is this article published
• T. Nesbith's views
• archival concepts redefined
• recommendation/solution :)

Content
Structure
Context

Contextual Knowledge

Is it that simple?

Study of the History

Record

• mediation created by social,technical process of inscription, transmission, contextualization

Provenance

• accounts for the records existence, characteristics, continuing history

Archives

• understanding of records
• appraisal, processing, description, implementation of process to make it accessibl

Appraisal

Arrangement

Fonds

Reference

Public Programming

Preservation

Sense of objectivity an Illusiion

Description

descriptive architecture

descriptive architecture

Essays

• accompanied by subject guide, file lists, digitized docs
• valuable in the digital age, provide insights to the contextualities which shape understanding of the records