A négy archívumi világkép
The Four Archival Paradigms

Summary/Abstract: With an information-centered approach, four successive paradigms can be distinguished in the multi-millenial history of archives. Alongside enduring elements of continuity, new key features, functions and impacts appear, which together fundamentally change the actual role and ideology of archives. In the archival systems that can be designated respectively as title-based, national, public, and global ones, their primary or new objectives, key institutions, specialists and target audiences as well as applied infor- mation technologies and characteristic problems show significant differences. This paper attempts to include the most important characteristics of these respective archival paradigms in one coherent system, with brief reference to the evolution of the two other majormemory-preserving institutions: the library and the museum.

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