Archive

What is archive?

Archive plays a role as a recording of all the memories and accumulation in order for individuals and organizations to check back the primary sources in the past. The documentation that are selected have been preserving for a long term, also none of them are identical copies, instead, they are distinctively existing in their own values to the relevant functions and institutions. It's a collective source of knowledge controlling over the practice of organizing, rearranging, accessing data to achieve the goal of helping us to remain a better continuous history.

This is a common image of what an actual archive looks like, its tidiness offers a foundation of providing organised data for better future viewing 

Web archiving is the most common way to collect the data from world wide web, that is, its massive size will operate automated collection.

Since Archive is everywhere, from the private sector such as academic learning to business sector and government sector. Everyone can be a great and active archivist as long as we are willing to put everything in order. For instance, photos in our phones and games in our computer are systematically kinds of archive. All these archive can be rearranged for a better viewing experience since classification is a key way to do so, we all have this experience by putting things with similar characteristics or functions. For instance, Facebook is a large system of archive when it comes to the point of easily classify our favourites, games, groups, friends, photos etc. A typical example will be list of friends, which they have made them even more specific by sorting them out into close friends, favourites, school friends or any other kinds. In other words, this is the best solution to find out the records of people and things, quoted 'when records and archiving professionals use the term 'archive' they are referring to the permanent storage of records, not merely their removal from current usage' (Wikipedia)

Archive, surely is not just a term for demonstrating the historical records but representing a power, an authoratative state ruling and governing our life in social order, without its existance, we might lose our balance to see things in a logical order since it's fundamentally keeps our ongoing data in a right place, in the sake of reminding us where to get back to it. It's everywhere, everything, not only for individual uses but also for business for profit, it's a must for them to corporate archives in order to maintain items related to the administration.

Other institutions such as schools have their own archive too. A website called My school builds upon its archive system sharing information about the performance of schools and resources that the public may be needed, in result of doing this, more parents would have the willingness, or let's say the DESIRE to do more research for their children to get better education. Users can view wider range of information instead of going to a particular school in person because it provides further resources to check online over time. This valuable tool undoubtedly stimulate more responses for the communities and has an effect on intergrating and unifying clearer utility for all sorts of data sharing.

When knowing archive is all around us, it has been evolving until now and getting more influential later. This turns into what we call it an ARCHIVE FEVER. What association has arise from archive fever? Our DESIRE, the desire that we are getting trapped into this fascination, it turns us into those possessive ones having an attempt to sort out all our memories into different blocks. To make it clear, archive fever is like a trend, has implanted its ideological complex into our brain so we've got this inception, to be motivated to get involved into this act, the archive act to fulfil our desire in life.  CAN WE DEFINE IT AS A FLOOD?

Archive, maybe also a way to get attention, the fact that we notice is those data that have been selected in a particular folder will be much more noticeable than the random ones.

Ultimately, this fever will be a long lasting progress because such innovation incredibly amplified and revive our DESIRE to trace back what was happening before, remaining our personal resources and potentially enriching our exploration and experiences in life...

Everyone should be an active achivist, catching an archive fever...

references:

Archive, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive>

My school <http://www.myschool.edu.au/>

Sharon Howard(2007), Reposted: archive fever: a dusty digression, Early Modern notes, <http://earlymodernnotes.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/reposted-archive-fever-a-dusty-digression/>

Matthew Ogle(2010), Archive fever, Mattogle.com, <http://mattogle.com/archivefever/>