Archival science and changes in the paradigm |
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| Authors: | Fernanda Ribeiro |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, via Panoramica, s/n, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | The dominant paradigm in Archival Science, thehistorical-technicist paradigm, has its origins with the French Revolution and raised from the social, economic, political, ideological and cultural
changes that occur during the 19th and 20th centuries. During this last one and due specially to the technological revolution
Archival Science reinforced its technical component and became autonomous in face of History, but the consolidation of the
model, based on a custodial, technicist and documentalist perspective, is associated to a knowledge essentially empirical.
By effect of the new conditions generated by Information Society, the dominant paradigm entered into a crisis and developed
inside itself the factors which, unavoidably, will produce the paradigm shift. The new paradigm — thescientific-informational paradigm — conceives Archival Science as an applied discipline into the scope of Information Science and defines unequivocally
its object of study — the archive, understood as aninformation system — and its scientific method of research. The method tends to find consolidation through quadripolar research dynamics, which
is operated and continuously repeated within the field of knowledge itself, which implies a permanent interaction on four
poles — epistemological, theoretical, technical and morphological. |
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| Keywords: | archival science paradigm shift research method |
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