Dear Nazariah:

In archival science, "archive" as a verb does not exist (when records 
of continuing value go to an archival institution, we talk about 
"transfer" from a creator's perspective and "acquisition" from a 
preserver's perspective), and "archive" as a noun is an old fashioned 
English version of the noun "archives", which is a collective 
term.  In archival science, the noun archives has three meanings:

1. The whole of the documents made and received by a corporate or 
physical person or an organization in the conduct of affairs, and 
preserved for action or reference. Synonymous with the term archival fonds.

2. An agency or institution responsible for the acquisition, 
preservation, and communication of archives selected for permanent 
preservation.

3. A place in which archives selected for permanent preservation are kept.

The term archives come from the Greek noun archeion, which was the 
office of a public officer, and from the verb arche', which meant to command.

To archive as a verb was invented by IT practitioners to refer to the 
act of storing data, as Glenn states. In Records Management, it 
should not be used (I am not saying that it isn't):  records managers 
may maintain records, store records, or preserve records, which are 
three very different functions, but they do not archive records.

My two cents,

Luciana

Dr. Luciana Duranti
Chair and Professor, Archival Studies
Director, The InterPARES Project www.interpares.org
Director, Digital Records Forensics Project www.digitalrecordsforensics.org
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