LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching aims to offer a complete framework on the formation, organization and conservation of archives, both analogue and digital, as well as on the development of finding aids to ensure their use.The teaching aims to offer a complete framework on the formation, organization and conservation of archives, both analogue and digital, as well as on the development of finding aids to ensure their use.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching of general and digital Archiving aims to provide students with the basic coordinates on the methods of training, management, conservation of documentary complexes produced by public or private subjects, with particular reference to the forms of organization and sedimentation of documents from the Middle Ages to our days. The last 20 hours of lessons, dedicated only to students who have to take the 9 CFU exam, will focus in particular on the impact that digital information and communication technologies have had and will have on contemporary archives.

TEACHING METHODS

The lessons will be held in person.

There will also be moments of self-assessment aimed at the timely identification of the issues for which to reserve moments of study.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Main topics covered in the lessons (6 CFU):

• General framework of the discipline and basic concepts.
• The life stages of the archive and the concept of record continuum.
• The curent record: tools and activities.
• The Intermediate storage: the appraisal.
• The historical archive: reordering.
• Archive, structure and related entities.
• Archives in Italy: dissemination and geography of conservation institutes.
• Archives as cultural assets: forms and methods of protection, enhancement and promotion.
• Use of archives and documentation: access and consultation.
• From finding aids to research tools: description, representation.
• Research tools: guides.
• Research tools: inventories.
• From description to sharing: archival standards.
• The application of standards: archival information systems.
• Elements of the history of Archives and archivistics.

Main topics covered in the lessons (9 CFU):

• Basic elements and definitions: documents, information, data, metadata.
• Production of the document and digital archive.
• The problem of obsolescence.
• The problem of the reliability of digital testimony.
• Digital preservation.
• The hybrid archive.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. F. VALACCHI, Diventare archivisti. Competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica 2022.
2. Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, a cura di L. GIUVA e M. GUERCIO, Roma, Carocci, 2014.
3. E. LODOLINI, Storia dell'archivistica italiana: dal mondo antico alla metà del secolo XX, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013, con esclusione dei capitoli 1-3.
4. S. PIGLIAPOCO, Progetto archivio digitale: metodologia, sistemi, professionalità, Torre del Lago, Civita Editoriale, 2016.

Students who regularly attend lessons can agree on an alternative program; those who find it difficult to obtain the texts will be able to contact the teacher to identify others accessible in digital format.

For those who take the exam for 6 CFU the following are excluded:

S. PIGLIAPOCO, Progetto archivio digitale: metodologia, sistemi, professionalità, Torre del Lago, Civita Editoriale, 2016;
e i capitoli 10-11, 14 del volume Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, a cura di L. GIUVA e M. GUERCIO, Roma, Carocci, 2014.