Classified Records and the Archives
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70979391%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000002" target="_blank" >RIV/70979391:_____/21:N0000002 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-021-09370-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-021-09370-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/S10502-021-09370-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/S10502-021-09370-3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Classified Records and the Archives
Original language description
Records designated as classified at the time of their creation form a very significant part of public records produced by state and public administration bodies in a broad sense. At the same time, they represent a significant part of historical source production a part of which should be permanently preserved in the relevant public archives. Their information content and informative value for future historical science is in many cases highly qualitatively superior. However, the phenomenon of classified records, including at least minimum possible access to them is also of fundamental relevance to contemporary society and the maintaining of a functioning quality democracy. Very often, however, what is missing is a deeper debate over records classification as such. For example, how do intelligence services manage their records? Are they being arbitrarily destroyed? Do they remain classified unnec-essarily and for too long? The legal systems of most countries, including those with advanced democratic systems, now exert minimum real pressure on the declassification of once classified material. The following comparative study addresses the phenomenon of records classification and their declassification in some developed democracies with advanced archival systems; it also focuses on some of the features of the system’s post-1945 historical development, particularly in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, partly also in France, Germany, Sweden, and adds a look at the situation in the Czech Republic representing one of the post-communist countries in Central Europe. The study uses the specific examples of the USA and the United Kingdom to demonstrate in what respects archives and historians can act as an important factor in the process of management and declassification of classified records, and how they can also be an important element of democracy in this sense.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/VI20192022125" target="_blank" >VI20192022125: Analysis of personal data processing in the archives</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archival Science
ISSN
1389-0166
e-ISSN
1573-7500
Volume of the periodical
neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2021-10-18
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
37
Pages from-to
nestrankovano
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85117182228