2014, Vol., No.40

The Korean Journal of Archival Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.98

pISSN : 1229-7941 / eISSN : 2671-7891
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ksas

The purpose of the enactment of the ‘Law on the National Archives ofKorea’ should be to secure the accountability and to shape up theimproved governance system in the field of records and archivalmanagement, which will contribute to the strengthening of democracy inrecords management and eventually to the widening of the democraticprogress in Korea. On the basis of the above recognition and by way ofnotion called ‘horizontal accountability’, this paper suggests the way tosecure the National Archives of Korea’s independency. And the way toreorganize the National Records Management Committee based on thepluralism and the ‘multi-layered’ governance system is also investigated. One of the main directions in the suggested law should be for theautonomy and transparency in the operation of the National Archives ofKorea. This paper tries drawbacks and limitations of the ‘Bill on the NationalArchives of Korea’ introduced to the National Assembly last year, andsuggests the alternatives as wel lto get further forward with relateddiscussion.

The purpose of this study is to trace the formation process of “parallelprovenance” concept in the context of Australia’s aboriginal communityarchives development and draw its implications for contemporary rebuildingof domestic “past affairs-related committee archives”. Focused on historicaldevelopment of aboriginal community archives in Australia, this writingdivides its development into three periods: colonial archives, post-colonialarchives, and contemporary archives and investigates each period’s distinctfeatures in managing and building of aboriginal community archives. Firstof all, for colonial archives, it pays attention to Australia’s archival tradition,which focused on current record-keeping and then development ofmultiple provenance resulted from this tradition. Second, for post-colonialarchives, it examines the appearance of aboriginal people as the subject ofdocumentation category and name indexing on them. Finally, forcontemporary archives, it analyzes current activities of Australia’s academicworld of archival science for overcoming “the otherness” of aboriginalpeople through conceptualization of “parallel provenance”. Conclusively,through current meaning of parallel provenance, this study drawsimplications for democratic contemporary rebuilding of domestic pastaffairs-related committee archives, in which historical victims become the subject of archives.

One of the reasons behind the surfacing of such issues is because therecord does not exist and even if the records remained, it is because theyare not being properly managed. In Korea, National institutions in the fieldof visual arts, currently there are no archives that manage only the recordsfor the visual arts as an independent institution, and the reality is that theNational Museum of Archives is still in the beginning stage as well. This study has conducted a research on the records collection strategyand the management of the record information of an author who is thecreator of the visual arts as a starting point of the visual arts. For thispurpose, the definition of visual arts and the concept of an author coveredin this study will be examined and the types of documentary that mayoccur in the field of visual arts were analyzed. In addition, the history ofan author is its personal record thus a personal history and private archivehave been examined. Based on this background, the cases on the personalrecord and the management of the record information of domestic andforeign authors were analyzed and the implications were derived.