Archive activities

Archive activities include the activities carried out by archival services of all types, with a view to building, storing, classifying, physical or digital archive collections and communicating them to the general public or to a particular category of users.

This class includes:

• activities of public archives providing a service to the general public or to a special clientele (e.g. students, scientists, staff members) as well as the operation of government archives
• activities related to the acquisition or collection of archives
• activities related to the identification, stocktaking, description and classification of archives
• activities related to the safety and maintenance of archive items (monitoring of the sanitary status and of climatic conditions, safety and security, rehabilitation)
• activities related to the communication of archives to the public on site or remotely
• digitisation of archival documents for digital archive collections

This class also includes:

• archiving of all kinds of documents (in paper or electronic form)

This class excludes:

• retail sale of manuscripts, see 47.69
• storage of data files, see 63.10
• digitisation of files (linked to further processing of data), see 63.10
• digitisation of files (without any other related activity), see 82.10
• conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, see 91.30