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Risorse Industriali Culturali: Estrazione e Raccolta dei Contenuti per Accessibilità
BUSINESS ARCHIVE AND INDUSTRIAL ARCHIVES
The business archives is a specific sector of archival science concerning the historical archives management relative to the complex documenta…tion
produced by entities (creators) carrying out an economic activity.
A particular area within business archives is the industrial archives that handle issues related to documentation of the world of industry and
labour. The substantial difference that characterizes an historical business archive compared to an historical archive in general is the
particular archive structure, its characteristics and the type of materials that it retains (e.g. technical drawings, photos, video and audio
files, 3D objects, and text documents). These elements arise from the documentation production context, from the creator type and from the
different business activities.
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WHY ARCHIVES ARE IMPORTANT?
One of the most important distinctive features in the business archives is the uniqueness of the resource preserved in archival
institu…tions; the preserved resources are important testimony of the past social life and therefore they are used as sources for historical
research.
Business archives represent an element of utmost importance for the development of a country, but the preservation of corporate archives and the
possibility of easily accessing to them remain a challenge in most countries.
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PECULIARITY
The Business archives management is different from any other type of archives management and requires the application of particular methods, t…ools
and strategies in the different phases of the archive life cycle; it requires also a particular definition and implementation of the conservation
policies and the analysis and development of many types of operations activities and criteria to manage the documentation. In addition the archive
management plan has to be coherent with the company business type and in accordance with the specificities of the single historical archive and
taking into account the national legislation that regulates the preservation and access to the documentation, the consult ability right and
privacy protection, changes in ownership and custody of the archive as an intangible asset.
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MAIN GOALS OF ARCHIVAL SCIENCE
The basic goals of the archival science are to preserve, catalogue and describe many different types of archival materials produced and preser…ved
on various supports types and making available the documentation in original form and/or in digital representation. In recent years this study
area includes the analysis of the traditional and electronic methods and tools for the documentation cataloguing and conservation, the process of
the digital preservation, the standard archival description on appropriate software, the use of databases for the archival heritage storage and
the access via web platforms.
Several European initiatives and projects aim to make the unique cultural heritage preserved in the archives all over Europe digitally accessible
via the internet to any possible user everywhere in the world.
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