ARCHIVAL SCIENCE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Abstract

The archival science in the Czech Lands started to develop until after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, and, more significantly, after the WWII. When theoretical issues were being discussed the term “archivistics” was coined, first for the archival theory as the opposite of practice, namely under the influence of Slovak archivists, later as a complex term for archival science in its theoretical and applied form; the term “archiving”, however, is still preferred in the Czech Republic. Currently, the archival science (or theory) is limited primarily to some problems, which are the subject of the present text: the definition of important archival terms and setting up the archival terminology, questions of selection and reception of archival material and, most recently, namely the recordkeeping of archival material.