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Swiss federal authorities

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 type 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 type also includes:

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

This type excludes:

  • retail sale of manuscripts, see 476900
  • storage of data files, see 631000
  • digitisation of files (linked to further processing of data), see 631000
  • digitisation of files (without any other related activity), see 821000
  • conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, see 913000