Photographic archives in Tunisian institutions in the digital age

Document Type : Scientific Articles

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1 Institut Supérieur de documentation. Université la Manouba

2 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad

3 The National Real Estate Company of Tunisia

4 Tunisian company for petroleum Activities (ETAP)

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Abstract:
Photographic archives constitute an integral and important part of the Tunisian audiovisual heritage. We are interested in this article in the conditions of conservation and management of photographic archives within Tunisian institutions. We adopt the “qualitative” scientific method, as we relied on “direct observation” in work institutions, with the aim of obtaining accurate information on the reality of managing photo collections in Tunisian institutions. The sample of the study is represented by a variety of tasks between economic, political, diplomatic, architectural, commercial, research and documentation.
We also adopted the analysis of the legal texts referred to in the article in order to call for their revision in order to clarify the procedures for depositing the photographic heritage, and to identify the interests concerned with preserving it.
The recommendations of our research are mainly, the need to develop a strategy for digitizing and archiving heritage photos in accordance with international standards; Then, the need to activate the role of the Tunisian National Library in preserving audiovisual memory.
Keywords:
Photographic heritage; legal deposit, analogy photographic archive; digital photographic archive; AFNOR Z 44-077; Tunisian National Library

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