Society of American ArchivistsCritiques
Auteur de Describing Archives : A Content Standard
Critiques
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1. Plural Noun
2. Singular Noun - 1. an institution’s or individual’s entire preserved body of interrelated and interdependent records; a fonds
3. Adjective
4. Notes - The most central term to the field of archives is also the most fraught. The word “archives” carries within it twelve commonly used and sometimes overlapping meanings. Archivists generally recognize only three senses of the word (the records, the facility where they are stored, and the organization responsible for both), but Richard Pearce-Moses’ Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (released in 2005) identified six. |
Many different conceptions or misconceptions of the meaning of the word prevail among those who are aware that it has some relation to records or documents.” [“‘Let’s Look at the Record,’” American Archivist 8, no. 2 (April 1945): 110.] | Hilary Jenkinson, famously (to archivists, at least) claimed that government records could not be considered archives if a continuous chain of custody had not been maintained, thereby reducing the definition of “archives” to its narrowest possible state. Otherwise, he asserted, the records could not be treated as evidence, and they were, essentially, null
and void—though a nongovernmental body might take them in, as a curiosity, we assume. | a clear distinction between
records (always active) and archives (always inactive), causing writers to use “records and archives” to clarify they were referring to records currently in use by their creators and those that had passed over into the archives for secondary use |
Records or Manuscripts vs. Archives (Active vs Passive)