NAUČNA DIMENZIJA ARHIVSKE DJELATNOSTI BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
SCIENTIFIC DIMENSION OF ARCHIVAL SERVICE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: Archival knowledge is without a doubt necessary for Bosnian­ Herzegovina society and it uses it often. A certain scientific and professional infrastructure has been established (regulations, institutions, societies) and it tries to perform its duties adequately. However, this infrastructure is rather lacking so it is usually reduced to performing the most basic everyday tasks, mainly so that archival duties would not hamper the administration. For creative, professional dimension of the activity needed optimal conditions have not been met. Still, many archives and archivists made huge results in this area that are relevant to archival science in general, and that contribute to status of archival science in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this area relevant results have been achieved by publishing archival journals (Herald of archives and archival Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Archival practice, etc.) and by organizing and constantly improving the quality of international scientific conferences in the country (counseling "Archival practice" in Tuzla, etc) and abroad ("Sodobni arhivi" or Contemporary archives in Maribor, the International archival conference in Maribor and Trieste, annual and thematic conferences of archivists in Croatia, Vojvodina, etc.) For further creative development of archival activities new scientific knowledge is decisive, whether it is generated inside Bosnia and Herzegovina, or some outside generated ones are applied. In all this it would be important to create adequate inventory (recapitulation) of the state, and after that establish the strategy of further development, a task that was not completed by the First Congress of archivists of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006. With good preparations, from healthy scientific positions, and not from limited administrative ones, this important achievement could be completed in upcoming archival congress. Bosnian­Herzegovina archivists have a professional obligation and need to work on this with much more agility.

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