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Valorization in archival practice is present since the 50s. Slovenia use positive evaluation. Introduction of e-management and the formation of e-materials valorization had to adapt. For the first time we meet with a request for media format evaluation as a condition for the preservation of information in the structure.
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The author is concerned with some evaluation specifics of registry materials (in terms of positive legislation) mediated in securities trading, which was created as a direct result of the Bosnian society transition. This archival material is specific for that period and did not exist in the previous system so it is unknown to earlier archival service and archivists. The archival material is relating to the activity of brokerage houses, stock exchanges, the Register and the Securities Commission and refers to the mediation in securities trading. Due to the relevance and importance of archival material it is necessary to emphasize the need for evaluation of that material and its protection and the need of including archivists in these processes.
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The traditional way of evaluation of archival material that was characteristic for Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period up to the war has not significantly changed even in the postwar period. Besides finishing the application of certain "negative" list of the rest of her personality to the present, and in this way influenced the other processes in working with archival materials, and to a method and a process of treatment and recovery. The basic characteristics of this influence is that, due to "negative" method of valuating a certain amount of material destroyed in the registry it led to taking over incomplete fonds in the archive. While working on these fonds the need comes out, during the process of selection and editing, to keep part of the material originally not defined as a permanent one, due to lack of real archival material, since it can also help as a source of information and data, especially to researchers. The biggest problem is that these needs often were not taken into account during the process of evaluation and selection of archival material, so this part of the material is mostly destroyed and without adequate verification of preserved archival material with the appropriate records. So we came into a situation that in addition that certain archival holdings of the permanent significance were not preserved, nor did the stuff that is not archival and which should be kept in such cases. In addition, nonobservance of certain criteria of evaluation is what largely influenced the structure and content of funds that are now kept in the archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All of this points to the need to change the relationship of records service of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the evaluation of archival material, but also to form a more active attitude of archivists towards solution of this problem.
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Material or physical protection of documentary and archival material should be considered the same protection in the current and ongoing collection, so that the material is not damaged or destroyed. The emphasis is on basic measures for the safeguarding of materials, (these are the appropriate building facilities for storing materials), with the appropriate technical equipment rooms for the protection of materials in their entirety from burglary, theft, misuse, dust, fire, water, inadequate temperature and air humidity, penetrating ultraviolet rays and the biological, chemical and physical influences, so that the material, while being in storage, while managed, during the inventory, while used, transported and exposed is not corrupted, destroyed or otherwise lost somehow, and as the last element is the appropriate technical equipment of each unit and also documentary archive materials.
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For archival materials of courts there is opinion that, for the design and processing of funds it is sufficient to investigate the official media, and that the processing is very easy. We do not all agree with that completely. Why? Besides the fact that part of the archival material, when it comes to shaping the funds, there is no dilemma in the application of professional principles, and for some materials, or funds described in this article a number of changes required number of the additional reflection and analysis. It is clear that such solutions required an exhaustive multilayer analysis where researching archival material itself has proved ot be really helpful. In this way we applied justified and professional arguments and basic goals were achieved, which are integrity, availability and visibility of archival material. Applied procedures are not some ideal rules, but only the codification of archival practices based on archival principles which also express archival practice as well.
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The author presents the basic common features of valid archival professional standards ISAD (g) 2 (CPF) 2, ISDIAH and ISDF which are basis for the creation of standardized descriptions of archival material and the other related content and context. Standardized descriptions are realized in the archival information system as data elements lucrative forms. All data elements have a direct connection to the database tables and they are in between appointments with standardized data elements for exchange data. Most of them are developed on XML schema. For existing archival information systems important standards for data export and exchange are: EAD 2002 Dublin Core and MODS. At the end of paper there are a number of relations between the archival professional standards and standards for their exchange.
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The article presents archival professional standards for archival description, description of creators, their functions and institutions holding archives. The author compares individual standards and points out their interweaving. From her own experiences in using standards for the description of archives she presents a critical overview to the content of standards and suggests possible changes.
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The aim of this article is to discuss the selected written and non-written documents related to Poland, available in the Library of Congress. The documents that are fully or partially digitized and presented on the website of the Library of Congress have been chosen. The following polonica are characterized: “Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States”, “Ledger listing in handwriting persons registered at the Polish consulate in Shanghai, 1934–1941…, and also Polish address and telephone books, as well as examples of “independent publications”, i.e. newsletters, magazines, declarations, newspapers, books and leaflets published in the country in the years 1976–1990. In addition, a few publications written and published by the library are described. The article ends with a summary and conclusions.
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Comprehensive work is almost complete. However, work does not end here because procedure of categorisation is a statical as well as dynamical process in totality of social, political, cultural and other relations in a society, which defines such relation as a process. Some of categorised owners will be closed, and others opened in accordance to needs of the society, as well as attitude of archival community regarding this and similar issues.Goal of this article is to present elaborate criteriums and methodology of approach to valuation at the macrovaluation level in totality of social processes whose goal is categorisation of archive material makers in public and private sectors. Method of such approach to valuation resulted in categorisation of public and private makers from the sphere of State Archive Rijeka, as it is estimated by regulations.
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Present state of affairs regarding protection of registry material made by legal institutions must be changed in a way to create all necessary conditions so this valuable written cultural heritage could be preserved. Therefore following should be done:- in accordance with established legal procedure all courts must completeand clean their registry material;- courts must provide conditions for storage of material, as well as puttingspecial employee to manage registry material;- in accordance with established legal procedure archival material of closedcourts, and material older then 30 years must be passed to the archive, which would create better conditions for preservation of the material;- establish a unique system of office and archival activities that wouldallow complete and efficient preservation and management of registry material;- courts must be open for cooperation with archives regarding protection ofregistry material.These objectives would end negative practice that occurred so far in Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding the system of protecting archival material of legal provenance as valuable cultural and historic heritage, and as evidence. Therefore important task of makers and archives is to preserve and protect this type of archival material.
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Even though objective and subjective factors influenced state of archival material of legal provenance, and lack of proper care during its managing and protection, positive fact is that there was no destruction of archival material in larger scale and it is protected in archives of courts in relatively good condition, preserved from additional damage during critical times, wars, juidiciary reforms, transitional changes and other circumstances. By moving archival material older then 30 years from courts to the Archive of Tuzla Canton agelong issue of material not being transferred could finally be solved. It is important that this material will be available to experts and broader scientific public, and it will be protected from eventual further devastation and degradation that could happen because of inadequate, bad conditions in which its being kept in courts, as well as inadequate care and lack of devotion from responsible personel.
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- Carry out the rationalization of present medical documentation and regulate minimum of needed data for each level of activity, based on the decision of responsible state agency,- respect legal regulations concerning managing of office and archival dealings, for both medical and nonmedical documentation,- establishing of unique criteriums for valorization of medical documentation,- Define list of categories of registry material with deadlines for keeping medical documentation according to real needs for it,- Because content of medical documentation remains quite specific, and inculdes important data for potential users of this documentation, especially for scientific or professional work, practice of establishing archives of medical documentation must be followed.
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This paper explains what the archives and archival materials, provides an overview of the origin and development of archives, contemporary archival theory and thinking about the future author archives. Neolithic Revolution led to private property and archives. Some will perhaps future economy based on freedom of giving (giving), and will be based on debt repayments. The human species will always have a need for recording and memory.
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The articie presents the most important information regarding the Law for the protection of archival and documentary material, and the Decree for the protection of archival and documentary material adopted in Republic of Slovenia during year 2006. Decrees of ZVDAGA are in the largest part compartible with European archival practice and should assist in better protection of archival materials in Republic of Slovenia. ZVDAGA encompasses entire issues of the vocation , and some questions like realtions between private and public material, as well as electronic informations are treated for the first time in archival legislation of Slovenia.The Law from 2006. includes all types of archival material regardless of their origin or data carrier. It clearly establishes role and status of the Archive of Republic of Slovenia and other regional archives, as well as possibility of forming special archives. ZVDAGA deals with all relevant questions for protection and preservation of archival material and defines the system of efficient control over archive's work. New Law should add to further and more successful growth of archivistics in Slovenia, in accordance to the European archival practice.
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This paper examines the issue of the valuation of archival material on the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995). It points to the archival approach to evaluating material on armed conflicts, as well as specific and important events, and especially the theoretical and prektična archival point of view and actions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We analyzed the current situation, which is very different from the explicit and the laws of the obligations established special expert care for war production materials, but to quite the opposite, usually marginalizing access. Research show that the reasons for that is in the political oppositions, and in the dominance of politics over science and profession
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The author, in he's work, in the beginning, is exploring international acts, which do manage, archive matter, in the case of weapon conflicts, like is Hague Convention on production of cultural issues of 1954. year, program "world memory", on protection of vital archive matter, etc. Then he does explore necessary undertake steps in the archive, for protection of archive matter during weapon conflicts, disasters, especially fires. From the last mentioned, he does explore act that are established in Kosovo, as it's Manual on fire protection. At the and, he does explore data on suffering and pillage of archive matter in Kosovo, during 1998-99. (nineteen ninety eight dot ninety nine) conflict.
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Change of archival legislation after year 1991. demands different approach, especially in a case of private makers of archival material. In Regional archive of Maribor we ask ourselves, if we will be successful in the future in protecting private archival material? We are afraid that in practice legislation is hard to follow. Most important thing is to achieve direct contact with makers of private archival material. Only with participation, regular informing and educating we will be successful in preserving important parts of Slovenian cultural heritage. In Regional archive of Maribor we decided to warn, as soon as possible, communities and organizations about our duties and get basic information about their work. We started with a survey. According to previously set criteria we picked those organizations and sent them our queries. We where aware that we can count only on a good will of organizations and their will to cooperate. Data gathered in this way could help us prepare registration programs, which we would suggest to ministry and on a basis of which private material would get status of archival one.
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Unlike the past, when technics of appraisal have been directed "from the bottom up", that this is tehnic that examines documents, socalled microappraisal, we have decided to primarly use tehnic "from top to bottom" or macroappraisal. It means that we wanted first to undrestand functions and activities of archives creator and to place him in belonging context of mutual! conections, then to move to microappraisal and analysis of individual document and to appraisal of contents, but again placing it in specific context specific activmes and another regulations wich were appropriate for this task, than the Registers of archives creators run by Ar chives, corresponding pools wich were as supplement to our Reg ister, analysis of archives that are today in Archives, archivistic litterature (domestic and foreighn), and last but of great importance the cooperation with public archives creators from our territory of the activity.
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On November 2006 I have sent to all 14 Croatian state archives of the period identical letter asking certain information regarding work of users' rooms and consultation of records. Archives' answers are evidence of relations of archives towards users, but also show how much archives, in performing theirs tasks and answering to clients' requests, respect provisions of records management and freedom of information acts. One of the Republic of Croatia Constitution's provisions is that anybody has a right to write to a public organization, and receive answer from that organization. Vast majority of archives, or 93 percent of them, respects this provision. Archives to a certain degree respect records management regulations in force, provisions related to formal validity of a document. Disturbing fact is that 23 percent of archives (almost one quarter) do not use classification mark and registry number. Only one (less than one tenth) from 13 of received archives' documents is fully formally correct. Freedom of information act determines that a public body is obligated to enable to a claimant access to information not later than 15 days from the day a claim is lodged. 31 percent of archives do not obey stated provision, and thus at the same time breach provisions of the Law on administrative procedure. Law on archival records and archives determines that archives perform professional supervision over preservation and selection of archival records stored out of archives, and rule measures for its protection. By analyzing received answers certain questions unavoidably arise: what system archives use to file and retrieve documents that do not have classifications mark and registry number; how much archives contribute to the poor image of profession by not obeying the laws; are archives which do not obey records management regulations competent to perform professional supervision over preservation and selection of archival records stored out of archives. Answers to these questions can be given, after a thorough analyze, only by competent bodies: the Ministry of Culture and the Central State Office of Public Administration. Archivists themselves must very strictly obey relevant regulations.
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This paper discusses some of the characteristics of classification and processing of archival material incomplete and unsettled funds, as a problem that has long been present in the archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or who will in the future be one of major tasks of our archives. Is particularly pronounced review of the classification and processing of fund Workers University in Tuzla, on certain issues that have emerged in this work and the way they are outdated.
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