Electronic archiving in public and private institutions in Khartoum State

Abstract

Field Archive of the domains most neglected in Sudan, whether that was an archive traditionally or newly There look inferior to those who profession is the occupation, and in most institutions where there is a department or unit or a special department archives are always suffering from oppression and marginalization, especially government institutions, in addition to a lack of awareness of the documentary of the importance of archive documents, despite being the source of authentic sources of the writing of history, there is no doubt that the lack of interest and apathy archives has led to our loss of many of our documents task that was supposed to take the way of the role and documentation centers, archives nationalism to reflect the different practices of our Sudanese, whether that was a governmental or especially then be made available to researchers and readers so that we can take advantage of the mistakes of the past and present development of tomorrow bright and promising. Despite the uncertain degradation Archive in institutions, especially government ones, but that this talk should be according to studies and research informed, this sense this study was to reflect honestly and transparency of the status quo for archiving electronic institutions Khartoum state and that by standing on the problems facing the archives and archivists and develop solutions appropriate and in accordance with the methods of scientific correct, and adopted this study on the tools of observation and interview with officials from the archive institutions in addition to relying mainly on the questionnaire Scientific has designed researcher questionnaire especially for this purpose, and then distributed to public and private institutions in the state of Khartoum and analyzed by the program of statistical analysis SPSS. The study concluded the lack of electronic archive at a rate of more than 50% of the total proportion of institutions surveyed, while the rest of the other institutions that have archiving electronic, it suffers from many problems, organizational, administrative and technical, marginalization and lack of legislation and common standards ... etc., and the study provided a set of recommendations to address the problems faced by the electronic archiving institutions under study, and the study concluded develop proposals for specifications that must be met for the institution of choice for a software electronic archiving.