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Lecturer(s)
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Ledvinka Václav, doc. PhDr. CSc.
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Čtvrtník Mikuláš, doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course in the face-to-face form includes the following topics by week: 1. Basic exposition of the topics and issues analyzed during the course. Overview of basic professional literature. Foreign archival periodicals. 2. Constitutive categories, concepts and methods of contemporary archival science and document management (including provenance, archival collection, authenticity, credibility, document, archivalization versus archiving, records continuum, macro-evaluation, horizontal and vertical evaluation, the multilayered concept of archive in the context of newer philosophical and media-archival theories, and others). 3. Pre-archival care, selection and evaluation of documents, file service. Macro-evaluation theory. Records continuum model. 4. Archival processing, description and inventory. International descriptive standards and Czech Basic rules for processing archival materials. 5. Archival use (post-archival care). New possibilities of archival use. Physical and virtual exhibitions in archives. 6. Education in archives. Possibilities and forms of participation in primary and secondary school education by archives. 7. Access to documents and archives. Forms of making archives accessible and limiting their accessibility. 8. Protection of personality in archives. Protected interests of persons in archives, comparison of foreign regulations and specific models and comparison with the situation in the Czech Republic. Public versus private interest. Right to be forgotten. 9. Documents and archives in classified regime. 10. Electronic archiving and electronic document. 11. Archival inflation and possible models of information and documentary reduction in archives. 12. Authenticity, credibility, provenance and their current changes in the field of archiving. 13. Meaning layers of documents and archives. Primary, secondary and tertiary meaning and role for archival methodology and application in practice. 14. Archival science and historical science: Changes in their mutual relationship in the 21st century. 15. Frontier perspectives of the field of archival science: Interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary archival science and archival science (media theory of the archive, philosophical concepts in archival science and its methodology).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course will present the current main topics, problems and issues in contemporary archival work in the Czech, but especially international perspective with an emphasis on countries with developed archival systems. Thematically, all main domains of archival work will be covered in a broad foreign comparative perspective, from pre-archival care and file service through archival processing, description and inventorying to various forms of archival use. Areas such as access to archival materials, classified documents and specific processes for handling them in a comparative foreign perspective, as well as electronic archival work and electronic documents will be discussed. Key categories and concepts for archival work and document management and their current changes will be analyzed, such as the categories of authenticity, provenance, credibility, the concept of an archival fund, document and the process of constituting archival heritage itself. The latest conferences, congresses and other professional events in the field of archival work and document management in the international field and in the Czech republic will be reflected.
The student will gain an overview of current topics, development trends, basic categories and concepts of archival science in the 21st century in a Czech and global perspective. He will be able to orient himself in all essential archival activities in their current formation. He will be familiar with the possibilities and forms of making archival records accessible and their risks. He will be able to orient himself in the area of protection of personal and other data in archival records and the application of this protection in archival practice. The student will gain a basic overview of documents in the classified regime. He will be able to orient himself in the basic problems that electronic archival science faces today.
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
During the semester, an individual paper, or rather, the preparation of a written seminar paper, and at the end of the semester, a final oral exam covering the entire lecture material and individual study of literature.
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Recommended literature
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Eckhart G. Franz. Einführung in die Archivkunde. Darmstadt, 2018.
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Luciana Duranti, Patricia C. Franks. Encyclopedia of Archival Science. Lanham, 2015.
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Luciana Duranti, Patricia C. Franks. Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515 ? 2015. Lanham, 2019.
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Ludmila Sulitková. Archivnictví a spisová služba. Ústí nad Labem, 2017.
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Richard Pearce-Moses. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Chicago, 2005.
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