french archival science

• 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

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