OUR NATIONAL ARCHIVE NOT ADVANCED

Panorama.am
21:08 30/11/2007

"We digitalize the documents by two stages: at the first stage we enter
all the facts about the same document into the computer, and create a
digitalized informational data base. The works of this stage are nearly
finished," said Amatuni Virabyan, the director of the National Archive.

"16 million drams are disposed to buy new computers; it will help us
to finish the work earlier. We are not enough advanced in this age of
information, as there are many archives who finished the digitalization
in 2001," said he. 6.6 million drams were disposed to the national
archive for other works, but they got a permission to buy equipments
to digitalize the films.

Note that 72 million drams are disposed to the National Archive from
the state budget to buy equipments. Today 3.5 million materials:
photo materials, records, films are kept in the archive. The oldest
one is a manifesto from Shah Abas in 1607, and the oldest in the film
stuff is "Namus" shoot in 1926.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress