E-projects at CERN

This short paper, given at a conference devoted to "Delivering Scientific Archives in the Twenty-First Century", discusses some projects at CERN concerning the long-term preservation of electronic documents and data

The archivist in the electronic age

The article looks at the changing role of the archivist in the electronic age. It considers the new challenges posed, and some of the ways in which they are being met. Physical threats to records include technology obsolescence and physical deterioration of media. But a more fundamental issue that archivists and records managers have had to face is to reconsider what it is that constitutes a genuine 'record'. Only then can policies be put in place to ensure that they are preserved for as long as they are needed

Louis-Albert Necker (1786-1861) and Henri de Saussure (1829-1905) - two early contributors to the ornithological collection of the Museum d\u27histoire naturelle de Geneve

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The CERN Archive

The development of the CERN Archive, it's main holdings and current activities

Online access to historical CERN Council and Committee documents

Information for historians of science about the availability of a new online resource following the CERN Archive project to digitize the records of the CERN Council and its subsidiary Committees

Arrangement and Description of the CERN Archive

This paper describes recent work on the arrangement and description of the CERN Archive. In order to improve access a shelf list was created and then adapted to become a Guide for public use. A functional arrangement was chosen for the Guide, in the hope that this would accommodate ongoing reorganisations and would grow with CERN. A re-evaluation of this approach was carried out 18 months later, and produced several improvements. It also raised a number of questions concerning the theoretical basis for some of the decisions taken about archival arrangement, and suggested ideas for future directions

Wolfgang Pauli and Modern Physics

Information about the Wolfgang Pauli archive at CERN, written in connection with the travelling exhibition commerating the centenary of Pauli's birth

Introducing: the CERN Archive

Information about the CERN Archive as a resource for historians of science