Trudy Huskamp Peterson

To Have and To Have Not: Archives as Information, Archives as Symbol Trudy Huskamp Peterson .

Introduction
Part 1. Archives as symbol
Part 2. Archives as protected cultural property
Part 3. The case of the cross-cultural digital copying project
Part 4. Adjusting the relationship between object and information

Part 1. Archives as symbol
National
Bilateral
International

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The Shoah Memorial

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Poland and Russia:
The Katyn controversy
Armenia and Turkey:
The Ottoman Archives

Part 2. Archives as protected cultural property
The right to information
The right to property, cultural property, and the state
Separability of information and object
UNESCO Memory of the World

The Right to Information
Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Principle 2, Joinet Principles Against Impunity

The right to property, cultural property, and the state
Article 17, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property

UNESCO Memory of the World
1993 Memory of the World background paper: “two forms of heritage will be distinguished: first, information itself, incorporeal and of intrinsic value; second, the material objects which serve as supports to that information.”

Mid-1990s View
Archival heritage is part of the cultural heritage
Protecting cultural heritage is a state responsibility but of world interest
Distinction between control of object and control of information
Keepers of cultural heritage to balance property and knowledge rights

Part 3. The case of the cross-cultural digital copying project
The acquiring institution
The archives
Reasons archives agree to projects
Loss to the archives

Part 4. Adjusting the relationship between object and information

Options
1. Licensure
2. Revised research applications
3. State copyright or state export controls
4. ICA principles on international copying projects and model agreements

Reprise
Balance the right to control cultural heritage and the right to know
Balance the control of the object and the control of information
Principle of respect and fair dealing

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Trudy Huskamp Peterson

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