Issues of keeping and acquisition of digital archival records of state archives on the pages of archival journals published in 2011–2020 (“Otechestvennye arkhivy” and “Herald of an Archivist”)

Abstract

The article reviews the main publications of 2011–2020, published in the journals “Otechestvennye arkhivy” and “Herald of an Archivist”, concerning the issues of keeping electronic archival documents, their entry into state safekeeping, as well as the experience of the archival institutions practical work in the field of digital records. Based on the historiographical material, the main directions discussed in the professional community on the pages of those journals are identified. In the period from 2011 to 2014, the issues of creating a digital fund for the use of archival documents and digitization of archival records in general were actively discussed. Theoretical aspects of digital records management were studied by the authors on the pages of periodicals in 2014-2015. In the period from 2016 to 2020, the key topics of the theory of digital records were the issues of creating a digital reference apparatus, as well as those of ensuring the digital records keeping. The analysis of the articles made it possible to draw conclusions about the regular advance of archival thought in the direction of theoretical and practical development of the problems of acquisition and preservation of digital records, and also to correlate the frequency of publications in those journals with the publication of key normative and methodological documents in the field of archives and records management.