Theoretical models for the integration of archives

Abstract

Archives integration or unification processes have shown differences that go from the individual to the general, from the grouping of archives in the different institutions to the grouping of those all over the country As a result, different theoretical models of archive unification have been presented in Archival Theory, such as Archival Institutional System, Archives Networks, Archives System and National System of Archives. The problem arises from their coexistence, without a clear delimitation of their concepts and main features. Therefore confusion exists in the presentations, in which different concepts and principles are sometimes exposed indiscriminately as meaning the same, and other times are applied to different realities in different contexts. For this reason this article focuses on the analysis of the different models of archives unification, to establish their scope and validity and to determine the concepts and elements that distinguish them