Annual Research Meeting 2014: Recapture our “archival science”
The establishment of the Japan Society for Archival Science and ten years of its activity
2014 Volume 21 Pages 20-33
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2014 Volume 21 Pages 20-33
It has been ten years since the establishment of the Japan Society for Archival Science（JSAS）in 2004. This article first reviews the original aim of the society and analyzes how it endeavored to promote a wide discussion on archival science as well as to promote the idea of archives through its ten years of activities. As this decade has also been a time of great change in the archival environment in general, the achievement of the Japanese archival community, including the contribution of JSAS activities, is analyzed next. The article concludes by suggesting what JSAS should do to further consolidate the position of the archives sector in the next ten years.
