@article{ART001684673},
author={김주관},
title={A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives},
journal={The Korean Journal of Archival Studies},
issn={1229-7941},
year={2012},
number={33},
pages={85-112},
doi={}
TY - JOUR
AU - 김주관
TI - A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives
JO - The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
PY - 2012
VL - null
IS - 33
PB - Korean Society Of Archival Studies
SP - 85
EP - 112
SN - 1229-7941
AB - Group for the People without History(GPH) was launched at September 2002 and had worked for around five years with the following purposes; Firstly, GPH collects first-hand data on people’s everyday lives based on fieldworks. Secondly, GPH constructs digital archives of the collected data. Thirdly, GPH guarantees the accessibility to the archives for people. And lastly, GPH promotes users to utilize the archived data for the various levels.
GPH has influenced on the construction of archives on everyday life history as well as the research areas such as anthropology and social history. What is important is that GPH tried to construct digital archives even before the awareness on archives was not widely spreaded in Korea other than formal sectors. Furthermore, the GPH archives proposed a model of open archives which encouraged the people’s participation in and utilization of the archives.
GPH also showed the ways in which archived data were used. It had published forty seven books of people’s life histories and five photographic books, and held six photographic exhibitions on the basis of the archived data.
Though GPH archives had contributed to the ignition of the discussions on archives in various areas as leading civilian archives, it has a few limitations. The most important problem is that the data are vanishing too fast for researchers to collect. It is impossible for researchers to collect the whole data. Secondly, the physical space and hardware for the data storage should be ensured.
One of the alternatives to solve the problems revealed in the works of GPH is to construct community archives. Community archives are decentralized archives run by people themselves to preserve their own voices and history. It will guarantee the democratization of archives.
KW - Group for the People without History;everyday life history;community archives;digital archives;decentralized archives
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김주관. (2012). A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives. The Korean Journal of Archival Studies, 33, 85-112.
김주관. 2012, "A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives", The Korean Journal of Archival Studies, no.33, pp.85-112. Available from: doi:
김주관 "A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives" The Korean Journal of Archival Studies 33 pp.85-112 (2012) : 85.
김주관. A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives. 2012; 33 : 85-112. Available from: doi:
김주관. "A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives" The Korean Journal of Archival Studies no.33(2012) : 85-112.doi:
김주관. A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives. The Korean Journal of Archival Studies, 33, 85-112. doi:
김주관. A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives. The Korean Journal of Archival Studies. 2012; 33 85-112. doi:
김주관. A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives. 2012; 33 : 85-112. Available from: doi:
김주관. "A Proposal for Archives securing Community Memory - The Achievements and Limitations of GPH Archives" The Korean Journal of Archival Studies no.33(2012) : 85-112.doi:
