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french archival science [239639d6]

  • Spearheaded in the wake of the french revolution
  • Including conceptualization of public status of documents and the state's responsbilities to guard both the nation's heritage, and most important, to make that heritage widely accessible - DiCapua - Gatekeepers of the Arab Past pg 100

1. Principals

  1. respect des fonds - Reliance on Provenance

    • Assumes that records have orginalized from purposeful organized activity and have relationship to one another
    • Records should be kept within the same order they arrived, allowing sets to be reviewed in totality
    • Unique quality of documents arise from the relation to their source

  2. respect pour l'ordre primitif - Respect for the Primitive Order

    • Documents should not be reordered
    • A series was constructed with reason, and the series order itself is a document
    • Each record is a part of an organic whole