Division Xii / Commission 41 / Working Group Archives

Abstract

The Working Group Archives deals with all aspects of the identification and preservation of astronomical archives. In 2009 the IAU will celebrate its 90th anniversary, and on this occasion the WG is taking action toward preserving the archival materials related with the history of IAU. An institution must keep memory of its own past and, as the centenary of IAU is approaching, for the 2006-2009 triennium the WG Archives has started evaluating the archival collections related to the establishment of IAU, in order to check their extent and the current conditions of preservation and conservation of such documents.

Division Ix/Commission 41/Working Group Archives

“…However, Latin America is by far the area which has carried out the most advanced recognition, mostly under the impulse given by O. T. Matsuura (see Triennial Report 2006-2009. Recent news from Matsuura concern the elaboration of a model file card for the archival documents, proposed by C. Barboza (see : Matsuura 2010).…”

“…As suggested by S. Débarbat, a Working Plan, entitled "IAU Archives" was proposed by I. Chinnici and approved by the WG members (see : Chinnici et al 2009). The plan was mainly aimed at collecting information about the IAU archival documents kept in the countries first members (class B documents).…”