Swiss Competency Model for the Archivist of the 21st Century
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https://doi.org/10.33700/2670-451X.27.2.33-41(2017)Abstract
The paper discusses the competency model for archivists that the Swiss Association of Archivists (AAS) has written and published in 2012 to create a common model for all the parts of Switzerland including its different German, Italian and French traditions. The goal was to define the profession at the Swiss level, including its new aspects, and also communicate a positive picture of the profession, which remains mainly unknown outside specialized circles. Challenges between different linguistic traditions, new requirements of the professions, and a threefold set of competencies are explained through examples given in French and German, and translated into English, in the AAS documents Les métiers des archives: Le profil professionnel des archivistes (Profession in Archives : Competency Model of the Archivist) and Archiviste: un métier (Archivist : A Profession). Archival activities require specialized knowledge, professional competencies and social competencies, a new area for the first time taken into account and officially recognized.
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