2018, Vol.18, No.4

Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.81

pISSN : 1598-1487 / eISSN : 2671-7247
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jksarm

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea began operating the museum archives in October 2013. Although the museum archives have an independent flow that is distinct from discussions of the archival sciences, it is a reality as a record management organization, and therefore, access to and analysis from the viewpoint of archival science is required for efficient operation. The purpose of this study is to diagnose the method of collecting and organizing records from the viewpoint of archival sciences from the Institutional Archives of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. To this end, we theoretically examined the function of the museum, the role of the museum archives, and the scope and method of collection and arrangement of the museum archives. Based on these discussions, we analyzed the scope of the collection and the system of arrangement of the institutional archives. Then, we suggested some improvement plans.

As nonexisting information affects actual information release rate, the study noted that the absence of records leads to the “nonexistence of information.” Therefore, in this research, it was argued that records management should be thoroughly controlled from the stage of record production to solve problems such as the loss/damage/neglect/destruction/misclassification/ reduction of preservation periods and more. Through the management from the production stage, it is expected that the nonexistence of information problem will not occur and can be used as a tool for a demonstration of why the nonexistence of information exists even if such information occurs.

In recent years, ISO 15489-1:2016 has attempted to standardize the appraisal of records. It is difficult to apply standardized principles and methodologies to the appraisal of records because it is different for each country, region, and organization to distinguish what kind of records are important and how to select them. For this reason, numerous theories and methodologies have been proposed around the appraisal of records. ISO 15489-1:2016, on the other hand, has laid the groundwork for the standardization of the appraisal of records that are applicable globally in recent record management environments based on a new perspective on the appraisal of records. ISO 15489 presents the principles and methodology of records management that are consistent with the electronic record environment based on the record continuum theory, and the principles and methods on the appraisal of records presented in ISO 15489-1:2016 need to be analyzed in depth. This paper analyzes the concept and the logic of the appraisal of records presented in ISO 15489-1:2016 to find an improvement direction in accordance with the recent electronic record environment. For this purpose, it reviewed courses from the enactment of AS 4390 to the revision of ISO 15489 to understand the background of the appraisal principles of ISO 15489-1:2016. Based on this, the appraisal concepts and principles presented in ISO 15489-1:2016 were examined, and the process of the appraisal was analyzed.