وثائق التصميمات المعمارية المنشأة رقميا : دراسة أرشيفية

Abstract EN

Digital technology has changed the ways of expression and codification, handwritten, and drawn records have been transformed into records that are prepared and designed automatically using computer programs.

Engineering and architectural drawings become designs created digital, and may be printed to become analog, and the archive may include traditional(paper) and digital records, so they should be managed and archived in a way that facilitates their handling and availability when they are needed.

Design records (engineering and architectural) have informational and evidence values, It may still be required for maintaining the building or kept because it documented heritage buildings, or major project.

Also, they may have research value and are preserved in the historical archives, where architectural and artistic design record have several values, such as the administrative and historical value in addition aesthetic value.

The study discusses the concept of design record, their appraisal policies, and processes (arrangement and description) which they should be carried out in the record management and in the historical archives.

Due to the importance of standards the International Council of Archives issued guide to the archival care of architectural records However, the American Archivist Association has adopted a set of description elements to describe born digital architectural records.

The study translated the description elements and prepared description cards as a sample of records of the Heliopolis Company for Housing and Development.