Private Archives and Data Protection Today: Introductory Thoughts
Peter Pavel Klasinc · Atlanti · 2018
With regard to the archival theory and practice, technical-specialistic issues related to the activity of private archives and data protection can be referred to more areas.In that regard, we must first take into consideration the fact that in the former socialist countries it was never "necessary" discussing specifically about private archives, since they were largely nationalised after 1945.In those days there were no particular processes of data protection, since special archives had been set up for the various sectors -diplomacy, army, police, politics etc Nevertheless, in the older guides on archival collections distributed by each institution you can trace data concerning family, personal and private funds.These funds are treated separately and inventoried in many different ways, but that were nonetheless an important segment of archival records altogether collected over years and years of existence of an archive.Similar funds are obviously preserved also in non-archival institutions, such as libraries, museums, galleries and other similar