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Archival processing is a term used in the United States of America and Canada to refer to the act of arranging and describing the papers of an individual or family or the records of an organization. A person who is engaged in this is known as an ''archival processor'' or archivist. Ideally, when an archives receives a collection of papers or a group of records, they will have been arranged by the originator (the original person, persons, or organization that created or assembled the collection or records) and boxed up for the move to the archives in such a way that this order has been preserved. However, collections and record groups are often only semi-organized, and sometimes they lack any organization at all. Observing this organization, or imposing one where it is lacking, and then describing the organized material, are the tasks which archivists refer to as "archival processing" or "arrangement and description". ==Surveying== The first steps in archival processing are to gain an understanding of the originator, to observe the material's overall size and scope, and to discover any underlying organizational scheme in the collection or record group. The first of these is needed in order to understand the context in which the papers or records were created. These last two are called "surveying" the material. Both of these activities should be carried out with two archival principles in mind: ''respect des fonds'' and respect for original order. In regard to the first, which may be translated as "taking into consideration the entirety of the collection," the survey must include activity to ascertain whether the materials in hand are all, or only a portion, of the entire ''fonds''. If the archivist is in a repository that holds other parts of the ''fonds'', he or she should assemble a plan of work that encompasses, or at least acknowledges, the entire set of materials from the same originator. In regards to the second, the archivist must attempt to maintain the original order of the materials if the very act of record-keeping or if the record-keeping practices of the originator are in themselves evidence of the originator's activities or processes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Archival processing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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