Born Digital? Digitization and the Birth of the Moroccan National Archives
| Autor: | Nora El Qadim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Born-digital media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Public policy Public administration 050701 cultural studies Transparency (behavior) 0506 political science Good governance Political science National archives 050602 political science & public administration Institution Digitization Legitimacy media_common |
| Zdroj: | History in Africa. 47:195-218 |
| ISSN: | 1558-2744 0361-5413 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/hia.2020.4 |
| Popis: | This article examines the digitization policy of Archives du Maroc (AdM), Morocco’s national archival institution, which was set up in 2011 and opened in 2013. Given its recent creation, the AdM lead us to question the particularity of digitization in archiving policies when included from the start rather than retroactively. Through an analysis of the creation and development of AdM as a public policy connected to national efforts at transparency and “good governance,” I argue that digitization has served as a way of performing modernity through technology and international standards, thus reinforcing the legitimacy of a nascent institution. |
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