Archivability

With archival value is referred to in the archives the property to be acquired by archives in a historic Endarchiv . The archivability is determined using the archival evaluation process . Documents that are not archivable are usually collected . Documents are worth archiving if they appear to be evaluable for future questions.

In Germany, the term not only plays a central role in evaluation discussions, but also in the archiving laws of the federal states and the federal government .

literature

• Simone Chiquet: What does archival worth actually mean? In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 51, 2001 ( full text ).