The ACA is a federally incorporated, not-for-profit association and has received a Certificate of Continuance under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (NFP Act). The ACA was established in 1975, and incorporated in 1978, after operating for a number of years as the Archives Section of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). Today, the ACA represents over 600 archivists across Canada, with headquarters in Ottawa. Its mission is to provide the archival profession leadership and to facilitate an understanding and appreciation of Canada's archival heritage.
The AABC represents individual and institutional members, maintains resources for the public and the archival community, and advocate for Archives in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It's mission is to foster the development of the provincial archival community to better preserve and promote access to British Columbia's documentary heritage. It assists the community through its Educational Advisory, Preservation, and Network Services and maintenance of a provincial catalogue (MemoryBC.ca).
The BC Archives, located within the Royal BC Museum, is the archives of the provincial government of British Columbia, Canada, and provides research access to records of enduring value to the province for both the provincial government and public researchers.
The CCI is a centre of expertise in conservation and conservation science. It was created in 1972 to promote the proper care and preservation of Canada's cultural heritage and to advance the practice, science, and technology of conservation. The CCI advances and promotes the conservation of Canada's heritage collections through its expertise in conservation science, treatment and preventive conservation. The CCI works with heritage institutions and professionals to ensure these heritage collections are preserved and accessible to Canadians now and in the future.
The CCA was established in 1985, as a result of federal-provincial efforts to encourage and facilitate the evolution of an archival system in Canada. It is a national non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing and sustaining the nationwide efforts of over 800 archives across Canada. The CCA's membership includes provincial and territorial councils from across Canada, the Bureau of Canadian Archivists, the Association des archivistes du Québec, the Association of Canadian Archivists, and the Council of Provincial and Territorial Archivists.
CiFER is a global program of investigation into the records of financial institutions and how best to manage and control the risks associated with them. CiFER consists of 5 core research streams: core understanding, confidentiality, integrity, availability and solutions/best practice.
DOCAM was a five-year (2005-10) international research alliance, composed of some 20 institutional partners from around the world, focused on the documentation and conservation of the media arts heritage. DOCAM was entrusted with a mandate to examine the factors that threaten the technological arts heritage and to put forward solutions and tools to allow artists, collaborators, museum professionals and collectors to better document and preserve this heritage. DOCAM focused on five research axes: conservation, documentation, cataloguing, history of technologies and terminology.
The ERA is a technology system designed to preserve and manage the US National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) electronic records and to manage the lifecycle of paper records and other holdings, including support for records retention schedules and the accessioning process for all Federal records. NARA has been developing, testing, and refining the ERA System since 2005.
This 2-year (2004-2006) grant project combines electronic records preservation research and theory with digital library practice to investigate three areas of research: requirements for trustworthy recordkeeping systems and preservation activities, ingesting records into a preservation system, and maintaining records in a preservation system. The Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University and Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University undertook this project with support of a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) electronic records research grant. Although the project is aimed at university archivists and focuses primarily on university records, the findings are not university-specific and are easily applicable to the management and preservation of electronic records in most industries. The project deliverables consist of twelve reports and an ingest prototype tool. The reports fall into four groups: introduction, ingest, maintain and findings.
LAC preserves and makes accessible the documentary heritage of Canada. It also serves as the continuing memory of the federal government of Canada and its institutions. This heritage includes publications, archival records, sound and audio-visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents.
The NARA is an independent agency of the US government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives. The NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential proclamations and executive orders, and federal regulations.
Using the principles of archival science and diplomatics as a foundation, the "UBC Project" defined the requirements for creating, handling and preserving reliable and authentic electronic records in active recordkeeping systems. As its second phase, the InterPARES Project will apply the diplomatic and modeling methodology of the UBC Project to develop the theoretical and methodological knowledge required for the preservation of the integrity of inactive records created in electronic systems.
