"El Día Nacional del Archivero, que se festejará este sábado en Argentina, rescata la labor de cientos de personas que son guardianes de documentos históricos y refuerzan la memoria de olvidadizos investigadores o periodistas que necesitan datos para su trabajo.

El Día Nacional del Archivero se celebra en recuerdo de la fundación, el 28 de agosto de 1821, del Archivo General de la Nación situado -en la actualidad- en Leandro N. Alem 246 de Capital Federal, con el fin de centralizar los documentos referidos a la historia argentina.

La guarda de documentos no nació con esa medida, ya que previamente los periódicos y bibliotecas locales habían inaugurado sus propios archivos, prosiguiendo con una costumbre ancestral y con la necesidad cultural que tiene el hombre de testimoniar sobre su tiempo.

No obstante, la fundación del Archivo General de la Nación dio paso al nacimiento de la figura del archivero, trabajador que estaría de allí en más encargado de conocer en detalle la ubicación de documentos con peso histórico.

Con el tiempo, y gracias a la modernización de los sistemas de archivo, también este trabajador debió asumir la responsabilidad de iniciarse en el conocimiento de palabras como “digitalización de documentos” o “microfilmes”, y pasar del recorte de diarios y el ensobrado de noticias, a la computadora.

La búsqueda de los discursos de ex presidentes como Julio Argentino Roca, Victorino de la Plaza, José Evaristo Uriburu o de Juan Domingo Perón, dejó de ser -en algunos lugares- un revolver de viejos sobres amarillos, para pasar a depender de un “click” de un equipo de computación.

La iniciativa oficial en 1821 de crear, más allá de las hemerotecas, un archivo organizado y eficiente para los documentos históricos del país, surgió de Bernardino Rivadavia, ministro de Gobierno y Relaciones Exteriores de Martín Rodríguez, gobernador de la provincia de Buenos Aires.

Rivadavia dispuso que la documentación fuera clasificada de acuerdo a “Ramos y épocas”, adelantándose cien años a los preceptos de la moderna archivística, y destacando la doble función del archivo como centro de investigación histórica y como elemento indispensable para la tarea administrativa."
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" Le directeur général des Archives Nationales d’Haïti, Jean Wilfrid Bertrand, garde encore, en perspective, la construction de la cité des archives annoncée, le 22 août 2009, lors du lancement officiel de la commémoration des cent-cinquante ans de cette institution.

Il l’a confié aux journalistes, lors d’une conférence tenue, le 19 août, au ministère de la Culture et de la communication.

Selon le souhait exprimé par Bertrand, cette cité doit être un complexe culturel et administratif sur 6 hectares de terre, avec des espaces culturels et des archives historiques.

« 38 millions de dollars, c’est le coût nécessaire à la réalisation de ce projet » a déclaré le directeur Bertrand, qui rêve de faire des Archives Nationales d’Haïti un modèle de service public.

Wilfrid Bertrand se fixe d’autres objectifs, comme l’établissement d’un système national d’archivage tenant compte des archives départementales et communales, le maintien de l’autonomie administrative et la numérisation du registre d’état civil, pour la célébration du tri-cinquantenaire des Archives Nationales d’Haïti.

Les Archives Nationales d’Haïti ont été fondées, le 20 août 1860, sous le gouvernement de Fabre Nicolas Geffrard. "
Link, 20.8.2010

" In a transfer ceremony at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens today, Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero accepted on behalf of the U.S. Government the original Nuremberg Laws presented by Steven S. Koblik, Huntington president. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. deposited the documents at the Library for safekeeping at the end of World War II. He died in December of 1945 in an automobile crash before he could discuss their final disposition.

In presenting the Laws to Mr. Ferriero, Dr. Koblik said, “These documents should have been part of the National Archives, had Gen. Patton followed instructions from his commander-in-chief in Europe, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower directed that all documents related to the persecution of the Jews should be sent to a common collection point in Germany that was preparing for the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. These materials eventually were deposited at the National Archives. The Huntington felt strongly that it wanted the Nuremberg Laws to be placed with the other original documentation of war crimes against Jews during World War II. We are pleased that we are able to present these documents to the Archivist of the United States today so that the collection is now complete.”

“I am pleased and honored to accept these originals of the Nuremberg Laws on behalf of the National Archives and Records Administration and the Government of the United States,” said Mr. Ferriero.

“September 15, just a few weeks away, will mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of these laws by Adolf Hitler, which he used as the legal underpinning for the persecution of Jews in Germany, culminating in the Holocaust. We are very grateful that the Huntington Library is now providing these historically important documents to the National Archives, where they will join other original documents relating to horrors of the Third Reich,” he continued.

The National Archives also released today a 3:49 minute video short from its series “Inside the Vaults,” highlighting the background of the Nuremberg Laws. The video, which includes historic footage and interviews with National Archives expert Greg Bradsher and Huntington president Steven Koblik, is hosted online on the National Archives YouTube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/USNationalArchives, and the National Archives website, www.archives.gov/. This video is in the public domain and not subject to any copyright restrictions. The National Archives encourages its free distribution.
Background:

The Laws, which were signed by Hitler in 1935, are considered to be the official blueprint of racial policies against Jews in Germany. Individuals were defined as Jews if three or four of their grandparents were Jewish. They were stripped of their German citizenship and prohibited from marrying German citizens.

The Nuremberg Laws will join millions of other documents in the National Archives World War II holdings relating to the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and the trials at Nuremberg. They include transcripts of proceedings, prosecution and defense exhibits, interrogation records, document books and court papers. They also include other items such as the war diaries of Joseph Goebbels and Gen. Alfred Jodl, as well as registers from concentration camps."
Quelle: Link

" .... Der Anteil des Stadtarchivs am Sparzwang beträgt 150.000 Kronen. .... Im Stadtarchiv machte sich dessen Leiter, Bent Vedsted Rønne, Gedanken über die Durchführung des Sparvorschlags: Auch hier wird ein Mitarbeiter entlassen werden müssen. ...."
Quelle: Nordschleswiger, 25.8.2010

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article1038973.ece

Auszug:

Denmark’s King Christian IX offered Denmark to Germany in 1864 in an attempt to prevent the division of the country, but Germany declined, according to newly-opened records made available to an author by the country’s current monarch Queen Margrethe II.

According to the report, King Christian IX secretly offered Prussia’s Wilhelm I that Denmark could become part of the German Confederation in an attempt to avoid the monarchy losing Schleswig and Holstein after the wars of 1864.

The reasoning behind the offer appears to have been that while Denmark would lose its sovereignty, it would maintain its territories intact.

The new information appears in the ‘Doomsday Als’ book by Tom Buk-Swienty which is due to be published in late August. Denmark’s current monarch Queen Margrethe II opened Christian IX’s private archives for the first time in connection with research for the book.

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,708311,00.html

Update: http://www.gov20.de/open-data-von-unten-wikileaks/

http://www.indiskretionehrensache.de/2010/07/afghanistan-protokolle-spiegel/