| Learning outcomes | Upon completion of the training programme, graduates are to possess the following knowledge:
- the position of the archivistics as a scientific discipline in relation to other fields of science (library science, information and knowledge management, history, organisational science and public administration...);
- current general theoretical principles and methodologies of archivistics, specifically in the area of building archiving systems, the creation of records, acquisition, transfer, arrangement and description, consultancy, selection, destruction and material storage, as well as of the standards employed in this respect;
- principles of information provision, information technology and automation, with specific attention going out to applications of automated record management systems;
- the organisation of the archives and records, both from a historical as well as contemporary perspective, with the inclusion of recent developments in archive policy, both on a national and international level;
- statutory legislation and regulations pertaining to heritage management and archive law, information and public records act in particular (with the inclusion of issues of privacy, the publicly accessible nature of public administration, copyright, reprography rights, etc.);
- the building of archives in general and of registration, filing and consultancy systems in particular;
- techniques of organisational analysis (with the inclusion of structure analysis and the analysis of work processes) needed for records management;
- the usage of archives and their user categories for research, valorisation and public availability for cultural purposes;
- archiving strategies in relation to non-conventional information sources (audiovisual, electronic, etc.) and risk management with regard to heritage;
- the deontology of archivists and documentatist.
And to have the skills to:
- apply the principles of archivistics in a broad perspective on records (on conventional as well as modern technology carriers), and specifically;
- study a theoretical aspect of archivistics and to report thereon (principles, typology of sources, selection criteria, accessibility, description standards, etc.) and to use the bibliographical system to this end;
- design a dynamic and static record management policy as part of an administration (public or private), be able to compile an archive operation plan and a digital archiving plan, select due archive and record management systems and to superintend their implementation;
- efficiently organise archive supervision and archive consultancy across all aspects of archive management (ranging from the creation of records up to the permanent storage of such records);
- devise and carry out a scientifically founded acquisition policy for a records department, specifically as part of a wider-ranging heritage policy, with due attention for long term storage;
- to arrange and describe static archives in a scientific manner, either in a traditional or an electronic environment, in compliance with international standards;
This implies the ability to reconstruct the institutional history of public and private law institutions (organisation, competencies, duties, procedures).
- opt for a dynamic or semi-dynamic archive system in a considered scientific manner (compiling archive selection lists);
- to oversee all types of records research in a scientific manner and to dispense oral and written information;
- devise and implement a valorisation policy for a records department, specifically as part of a wider-ranging heritage policy (staging educational and interdisciplinary projects).
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