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An '''archive''' is an accumulation of historical records or [[Historical source|materials]], in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located.[{{cite web|url=http://www.usd.edu/library/instruction/glossary.shtml#a |title=Glossary of Library and Internet Terms |access-date=30 April 2007 |publisher=University of South Dakota Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310132820/http://www.usd.edu/library/instruction/glossary.shtml#a |archive-date=2009-03-10}}][{{cite web |title=Definition of ARCHIVE |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/archive |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601220902/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/archive |archive-date=1 June 2022 |access-date=1 June 2022 |publisher=Merriam-Webster |language=en}}] |
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An '''archive''' is an accumulation of historical records and/or [[Historical source|materials]], in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located.[{{cite web|url=http://www.usd.edu/library/instruction/glossary.shtml#a |title=Glossary of Library and Internet Terms |access-date=30 April 2007 |publisher=University of South Dakota Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310132820/http://www.usd.edu/library/instruction/glossary.shtml#a |archive-date=2009-03-10}}][{{cite web |title=Definition of ARCHIVE |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/archive |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601220902/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/archive |archive-date=1 June 2022 |access-date=1 June 2022 |publisher=Merriam-Webster |language=en}}] |
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Archives contain [[primary source]] documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the history and function of that person or organization.[{{Cite web |title=The OPS Historical Archives - Ophthalmic Photographers' Society |url=https://www.opsweb.org/blogpost/772200/154046/The-OPS-Historical-Archives |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=www.opsweb.org}}][{{Cite web |title=SAA Dictionary: archives |url=https://dictionary.archivists.org/entry/archives.html |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=dictionary.archivists.org}}] Professional [[archivist]]s and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities.[{{Cite journal |last=Manoff |first=Marlene |date=January 2004 |title=Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/51302 |journal=Portal: Libraries and the Academy |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=9–25 |doi=10.1353/pla.2004.0015 |issn=1530-7131|hdl=1721.1/35687 |hdl-access=free }}] They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism",[{{cite book |first=V. H. |last=Galbraith |author-link=Vivian Hunter Galbraith |title=Studies in the Public Records |place=London |year=1948 |page=3 }}] and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. |
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Archives contain [[primary source]] documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the history and function of that person or organization.[{{Cite web |title=The OPS Historical Archives - Ophthalmic Photographers' Society |url=https://www.opsweb.org/blogpost/772200/154046/The-OPS-Historical-Archives |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=www.opsweb.org}}][{{Cite web |title=SAA Dictionary: archives |url=https://dictionary.archivists.org/entry/archives.html |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=dictionary.archivists.org}}] Professional [[archivist]]s and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities.[{{Cite journal |last=Manoff |first=Marlene |date=January 2004 |title=Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/51302 |journal=Portal: Libraries and the Academy |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=9–25 |doi=10.1353/pla.2004.0015 |issn=1530-7131|hdl=1721.1/35687 |hdl-access=free }}] They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism",[{{cite book |first=V. H. |last=Galbraith |author-link=Vivian Hunter Galbraith |title=Studies in the Public Records |place=London |year=1948 |page=3 }}] and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. |
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