ARCHIVAL SCIENCE AND IMPACTS OF SOCIAL CHANGES TO ARCHIVES/ARCHIVAL SCIENCE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33700/2670-4579.29.2.%25p(2019)Keywords:
archival science, social changes, digital records, archivesAbstract
Archives as definition is a collection of historical documents or records providing an information about a place, institution, or group of people. All the information that archives provides are recognized as a national memory, at the same time these information do not refer only to physical records but also include electronic records. The author discuses about archival science and different ideas or theories and views. The paper gives the overview over the issue, how the society recognizes archival science through certain period of time and what impact had social changes on the archival science, especially in Oman. Furthermore, paper focuses on challenges that include new regulation of accessing the archival record in various countries, the introduction of further education that has modified and improved archival science discipline to educate modern generation scholars on how and why they create archives. The author discusses the emerging the network-based information and communication system and what and necessary changes affecting dealing with records.
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