The Battle between Archivists and Publishers

by Karel Thönissen

They live together in the same institution, the archivist and the publisher. Maintaining a historic archive and a content management system is too expensive, because all material then must be selected, filtered, classified, etc. twice. So from management there will be a strong push towards a single system. Who will win this battle? The archivist with his historically precise system based on format, or the publisher with his content management system based on the more malleable text? [complete article]