Meanings
- uncountableArchival science.
In its role as an enabler of transparency and accountability in the public sector, records management is similar to archivy.
2018, Norman Mooradian, Ethics for Records and Information Management, Schuman, page 492 more examples
But, while at times proponents of social justice write of it and activist archivy as if the former were simply an extension of the latter, I will argue that a social justice agenda represents both a difference in degree and a difference in kind from an activist agenda.
2013, Mark A. Greene, “A Critique of Social Justice as an Archival Imperative: What Is It We’re Doing That’s All That Important?”, in The American Archivist, volume 76, number 2, →JSTOR, page 303In the discourses of archivy and broader discourses which have taken an archival turn in the last two decades, the word ‘archive’ has become invested with multiple meanings.
2015, Verne Harris, “Hauntology, archivy and banditry: an engagement with Derrida and Zapiro”, in Critical Arts, volume 29, number supplement 1, →DOI, page 15
Origin
Coined by an unknown speaker at the first meeting of the Society of American Archivists in 1937.
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