DIGITAL AGE: TIME TO TRANSFORM OF PUBLIC ARCHIVES

Abstract

In this paper, the author points out that the challenges of long-term preservation of digital records are giving the public archives the inevitable requirement of revolution in their archival practice. The author believes that digitalization and digital transformation are not something that only companies should be thinking about, so they could be as efficient and competitive as possible, but the author believes that the time has come when public archives also need to rethink their business processes. In the paper is thus briefly presented the evolvement of public archives during the different periods of social and technological changes. It presents that public archives can also be transformed into modern digital archives using existing digital technologies.