Instrument of research
In the Files, a instrument of research is a work, a file or a database which describe the contents of a whole of documents preserved by a service of files. Intended for the public external with this service, the purpose of it is to make it possible to the researcher to quickly locate the documents useful to its research. It provides indications more or less detailed on the contents of each article (the article is the intellectual and material unit basic files, identified by a Cote).
The instrument of research is written and with the need updated by the Archiviste S for the service of files concerned. It is generally in free consultation in the room of reading, in multigraphiée form generally or form printed for oldest and those which relate to closed funds, i.e. nonsuitable for increase.
The instrument of research can be more or less precise, according to the service of files and according to whether the instrument relates on the totality of the preserved funds, funds private individual or part of funds.
In France, one distinguishes various types of instruments of research according to their level of precision in description. Two more widespread are the Répertoire and the Inventaire. The repertory, whose official designation is " repertory numérique" , described the whole of the contents of an article. The inventory one by one describes each part which constitutes an article. It is known as " sommaire" when this description is restricted to indicate the contents and the date of the part and " analytique" when precise details are added to it concerned with the Diplomatique, such as indications on the language employed, the nature of the support, the presence of a seal or a seal, etc
The drafting of the instruments of research is the international standardization object on the initiative and within the framework of the International counsel of the files. The first of these standards is the general and international Norme of archivistic description , more known under the acronym of its English denomination ISAD (G). Standards were then worked out for the notes of authority relating to the communities, the people and the families (standard whose English acronym is ISAAR (CPF), adopted in 1995) and for the description of the institutions preserving of files (ISIAH, under examination).
Source
Christine Nougaret, Bruno Galland, instruments of research in the files , Paris, French Documentation, 1999
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