This study aims to seek the plan to provide archival reference service and manage records systematically in public institutions without records centers. The National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage in this study is the only trial exca...
This study aims to seek the plan to provide archival reference service and manage records systematically in public institutions without records centers. The National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage in this study is the only trial excavation of underwater cultural properties in Korea, performing work such as excavation of underwater cultural properties, scientific preservation, research, restoration, and exhibit. Records created in the process of this work have high value in academic research, and thus it is necessary to establish the records center to systematically manage the records. However, due to lack of awareness about records management, establishment costs, and employment of professional human resources, currently it is difficult to establish the record center. Thus, this research studied the plan for National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage to systematically manage records as well as search and use records in reality.
First, the distinct work performed in the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage is divided into underwater excavation investigation, scientific preservation, Maritime Cultural Heritage research, and exhibit/publicity, in order to examine each process and the types and characteristics of the records created. And through surveys of each person in charge, interviews with records management staff, and data organized by participating in inventory arrangement and inventory, it grasped the actual condition and problems of records management. Based on the analyzed data, it proposes improvement plans in three perspectives: human resources and facilities, organization of create․declare․classification scheme, and development of finding aid.
This study presented improvement plans to systematically manage records suitable for National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage. Promotion is actually possible in human resources and facilities, and records created in work process can be declared without omission or loss through cyclic education in create․declare. And users can efficiently use the records by developing subject functional classification and finding aid.
This study grasped the actual state of records management of National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage and proposed improvement plans considering the characteristics of the institute. The subject functional classification proposed in this research is expected to enable systematic records management of public institutions that perform tasks of exhibition, research, and administration such as National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage, and also to enable users to efficiently search and use the records.