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Authors
Székely, IvánType
Journal articleTitle / Series / Name
Journal of Contemporary Archival StudiesPublication Volume
4Date
2017
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The rapid development of information and communication technologies pose significant challenges to archival theory and practice. The analysis of the dominant information operators of the archival institutions in the respective paradigms of archival history shows that today’s internet-based services can replicate all the main functions of the archival institutions, at least at the level of the fundamental information operators, on a mass scale. Despite these developments, the author argues that archives are under no direct threat of abolition or loss of function in the digital age, not only because of institutional inertia and traditions, but also their role in preserving context and preserving physical copies, and their institutional responsibility which will continue to be an important social, legal and administrative requirement in the future, too.Publisher link
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol4/iss2/1/Collections