Archaeology

FRANCESCA NEMORE
FRANCESCA NEMORE

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of GENERAL ARCHIVE, that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first grade of studies. Moreover, it will make the students able to approach orginal themes in a research context, making more complex judgments, communicating knowledge and its process, and studying the subject in an independent and self-educational way.


Cultural History of ITC, data bases, and the net. A special focus on the Open Access
Movement. Data bases for the “Scholarly Communication”. Digital Humanities

The course aims at developing a mature awareness of the main theoretical and methodological aspects of the archival discipline, especially as regards records management and the preservation and cultural promotion of historical archives. It will also provide students with historical knowledge concerning both the evolution of the concept of “archive” and the development of the archival discipline over the centuries, until it reaches the current structure of national and international archival systems. Through lectures, papers and practical exercise in archival institutions, the student will develop the critical and practical skills needed to understand the international archival debate, and its relationship with related disciplines. He will also learn how to approach different types of archive and how to deal with the challenges posed by that the evolution of technology to the work of management, arrangement, inventorying and development of research tools for archives.

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The course aims at developing a mature awareness of the main theoretical and methodological aspects of the archival discipline, especially as regards the preservation and cultural promotion of historical archives. It will also provide students with historical knowledge concerning both the evolution of the concept of “archive” and the development of the archival discipline over the centuries, until it reaches the current structure of national and international archival systems.
The course will be composed as follows:
1. Records management:
Records, archival records, and other kinds of records
Archives and its nature
Archives’ producers
Phases of records management: reference numbering and filing process
Tools for the keeping of current archives: management guidelines, reference number logbook, filing plan
Intermediate archival repositories
Selection operations, preservation guidelines, disposal of records to be destroyed
Archival rules, at the national and local levels
2. Historical archives
Arrangement: historical method in opposition to subject method, and their relationship to provenance and and pertinence principle
Arrangement, and the description of historical archives
International standards of archival description (ISAD, ISAAR, ISDIAH, ISDF, RIC)
Archival description software
Traditional research tools (inventories and guides)
Online search tools: the National Guide of Italian State Archives and its system, online information systems on Italian archives (SAN, SIAS, SIUSA), thematic web portals
The MAB (Museums, Archives, Libraries) issue: new models of integrated communication?
An archival preservation map
Archives and the public
Archives and the new media: communicating archives in the Age of the Internet
The archivist
3. Training tutorials

P. Carucci, M. Guercio, Manuale di archivistica, Roma, Carocci, 2021
G. Cencetti, Il fondamento della dottrina archivistica, in «Archivi» VI, 1939, pp. 7-13, ora in Id., Scritti archivistici, Roma, Il Centro di Ricerca Editore, 1970, pp. 38-46
G. Cencetti, Sull'archivio come universitas rerum, in «Archivi» IV, 1937, pp. 7-13, ora in Id., Scritti archivistici, Roma, Il Centro di Ricerca Editore, 1970, pp. 47-55
F. Valenti, Riflessioni sulla natura e struttura degli archivi, in «Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato», 1981, ora in Id., Scritti e lezioni di archivistica, diplomatica e storia istituzionale, Roma, Ministero beni culturali, 2000, pp. 83-113,
C. Pavone, Ma è proprio tanto pacifico che l’archivio rispecchi l’istituto? in “Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato”, 1970, n. 1, pp. 145-149 ora in Intorno agli archivi e alle istituzioni. Scritti di Claudio Pavone, a cura di I. Zanni Rosiello, Roma 2004, pp. 71-75
G. Michetti, Ma poi è tanto pacifico che l’albero rispecchi l’archivio? In «Archivi & Computer», 2009, n. 1, pp. 85-95

The course shall be composed of:
- Lectures, providing students with notions on archival theory, and on history of archives, as needed for the carrying out archival activity
- Monographic lessons and seminars that provide the student with insights on issues central to the development of the discipline
- Visits to conservation institutions

Optional but highly recommended

At the end of the course, the student must demonstrate: that he/she has learned the main principles of archival theory and practice, and their evolution over the centuries; he/she has acquired the proper vocabulary of the discipline, and how to communicate inside the archival community and to the outside public of archives.
The exam will take place orally at the end of the course.

In general the questions and exercises will focus on:
archive concept
records management
description of historical archives
archival research tools in a traditional and digital environment

• monday 10-12


• tuesday 10-12


• wednesday 10-12