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
Principals
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
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
