#document preservation

• Archival — Pertaining to archives, relating to record-keeping systems, or characteristic of historical and administrative documents; having archival quality. Although less common in Romanian than 'arhivistic', it denotes the structural quality of materials, standards, or media capable of resisting physical and chemical degradation for decades or centuries.
• Archivist — A person specialized in managing, organizing, and preserving documents within an archive; a specialist responsible for indexing, historically or administratively arranging, and protecting the documentary heritage of an institution, while ensuring regulated access to information.
• Archival science — A complex scientific discipline and a branch of theoretical and practical knowledge dealing with the history of archives, as well as the principles, methods, and techniques of organizing, classifying, inventorying, preserving, and utilizing documents of historical, legal, or administrative value. As an auxiliary science of history, it establishes the structural norms required for the proper management of national and international archival funds.