archivism
noun/ˈaɹkaɪvˌɪzəm/ · /ˈaɹkɪˌvɪzəm/
Etymology From archive + -ism.
1
The art or practice of maintaining an archive.
- By a nice irony of archivism the estate papers of the family were deposited at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, and they provide the basis for this article.2003, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volumes 75-77, page 189:
- We present fan archivism – or, as we describe it, activist archivism – as a form of fan production. In his recent book on fandom, Mark Duffett (2013, 21) describes fans as “networkers, collectors, tourists, archivists, curators […]2015, Sarah Baker, Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together: