عجفت الغور

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