archive vivante
English translation: active/live archive
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1active archive Explanation: Hello, Is this an active archive? an archive which people actually make use of... Just a guess I hope it helps. Reference: http://storage.itworld.com/5002/nls_storage_activehill060707... |
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living archive Explanation: could it simply be that it's the translation from the English term? There are plenty of google hits for this ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2007-10-23 08:56:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- This living archive will change as new important materials are uncovered and new struggles emerge. http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:8Ee4YRfWoksJ:www.sjsu.e... http://portal.unesco.org/ci/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=22251&URL_DO=DO... http://www.merce.org/archive_living.html |
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living archives Explanation: Personally I would have no objection to this. ‘Living’ archives are those found in. situ, with an undisturbed occupational level, ‘dead’ archives are. those which were found in situ, but which have been ... www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-925245-9.pdf 15. In particular, the Committee debated the concept of “Archiving”. It suggested distinguishing between the conservation of documents without a need to provide for rapid extensive access possibilities (so called “dead archives”) and storage of documents requiring rapid access facilities (so called “living archives”). www.coe.int/.../legal_co-operation/operation_of_justice/inf... However, "courant" worries me. Possibly "courant" refers to "static" or "paper" archives and "vivant" refers to things like film, video (music). Cf the British Living Archive project. Unlikely, given the context, but the drug companies may well produce training videos, and of course they will have TV advertising and such like ... |
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