Avaliação arquivística: bases teóricas, estratégias de aplicação e instrumentação

Abstract

The coherence of the various components of the function of the archival appraisal implies the respect of three requirements: 1) the clearness of the theory and its constitutive concepts and their capacity to specify that is what represents the value in the documents; 2) capacity of the strategy of appraisal to integrate the concepts relating to the value of the documents as defined by the theory; 3) and obviously, capacity of the institutional process of application to conform to the strategy and to respect its theoretical bases. In this paper, we should present firstly a short outline on the concept “function” in the context of archival appraisal. We approach then its components with knowing the theoretical bases, the related strategies and methods, the techniques and the criteria of its application and finally the instrumentation of realization, according to five key authors of the archival appraisal: H. Booms (1970, 1972, 2002), H. Samuels, (1986), T. Cook, (1992, 1994, 1997, 1999), T. Eastwood (1992, 2002) et C. Couture (1998, 1999, 2002).