Archive and Its Types

Archives : Its Quality and Types by Muhammad Yousuf Ali

Archive is the place where key primary source of information are displayed. An Archival centre consists the following items like Manuscripts, diary, photopgraphy, Data, report, news clips, personal notes, memo and etc. Archive preserve the past information and knowledge it provide verified information. This brief article provide the information about the following 4-points.

  1. ) What is an Archive?
  2. ) What are the key Quality of Archive?
  3. ) What the types of Archive?
  4. ) What are the main Source of Archive collection?

Q 1 What is an Archive?

An Archive is the place where researcher, scholars, historian and students can go and gathered firsthand information in shape of Facts, data, evidence from manuscript, letter, reports, notes, personal dairy, Photograph and other sources of information.

Q 2 What are the key Quality of Archive?

There are four main key quality of Archive

  1. Authenticity
  2. Reliability   
  3. Usability
  4. Integrity

1) Authenticity

Documents, Objects and sources of information keep in archive in original forms. Archivist and staff restore the original shape of the object. So collected information is authentic.

2) Reliability

Archival sources provide reliable information to the researcher. All the objects keep in archive have description about the objects.

3) Usability

Archive is accessible and usable the information sources after a long time because different preservation and digitalized technique are used to preserve the archival records. 

4) Integrity

Archive source is Integrity researcher/scholars on past. Archive connected the relation of history of any nation, language or culture.

Q 3 What the types of Archive?

There are three types of Archive

1. Government National Archive

2. Organizational Archive

3. Religious Archive

4. Personal Archive

1) Government Archive/ National Archive

An Archival centre working under the Government is referred as government archive. Government archive also referred as national archive. It preserve the Nation archival records.

2) Organizational Archive

An Archival center manage the records of any organization is known as organizational archive. Any business institution like newspaper media houses or an academic like university are usually manage their archival records to preserve their past activities and share these document time to time.

3) Religious Archive

Religious Archive preserved the religious records and object. Different religious archive informed research about the history of different religion. 

4) Personal Archive    

Personal Archive is manage by any person it can be related to any object collection of coins, postage stamps, news clips and etc.

4. What are the main Source of Archive collection?

The archivist collect their collection from different archival sources as per their respective domain. These Sources are

  1. Government organizations
  2. Academic Institution
  3. Community
  4. Business organizations
  5. NGO’S
  6. Individual

How to Cite this Article :-

M.Y. Ali (20 June 2022). Archive: it key quality and types. https://profileusuf.wordpress.com/archive-and-its-types/