Strengthening Partnership for Records Preservation

Preservation is a fundamental activity of archival management. Nevertheless, this specific knowledge has often been neglected in archival science education curricula, which has tended to pay more attention to core archival functions, such as the theory and practice of records organization, appraisal, selection and processing. With the arrival of the digital era and the production of electronic records, preservation has become an increasingly pressing issue due to new media obsolescence, and archival academic curricula and projects have begun to address preservation, mainly of digital records. The article describes the collaborations undertaken between ICA and ICCROM, two international organizations with very specialized fields of knowledge, but also many convergences and potential synergies that may be useful for facing records preservation challenges.