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«Arcade » : traitement par l'informatique d'un fonds des Archives nationales

1984; Association des archivistes francais; Volume: 125; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/gazar.1984.2900

2647-7572

Brigitte Labat-Poussin,

Cultural Identity and Heritage

ADP processing of an archive group in the Archives nationales : " Arcade ". The article describes the ADP processing of archive group " F21 " of the Archives nationales : commission and acquisition of works of art by the Government, a relatively homogeneous group. Does ADP permit to reconcile the two contradictory necessities of all archival finding aids, i.e. rapidity and accuracy ? The first task was to establish data cheets, an operation rathe similar to the traditional work of archival description, except for the choice of terms used to describe the works of art, which needed the creation of a special thesaurus, a long and difficult task. The advantages of such an ADP-produced finding aid are many : immediate use, possibility to publish a traditional inventory, and above all, multiplicity of possible fields of research by combining various interrogations. The inconvenients, on the other hand, are : slowness of work (preparation of the programme, individual analysis of each document), necessity of numerous and qualified manpower, numerous controls. However, when the risks of over-sizing the opération and over-multiplying the types of finding aids are avoided, ADP can and must give enormous help to the work of archivists.