Management of archives in private hands : a case study of the Hoshino Family Papers in Ohtsuki-shi, Yamanashi-ken.

本研究计划的目的是：（1）发展安全和廉价的技术和设备，以保存档案材料，适合那些在私人手中;（2）制定标准的安排和描述私人档案遵循国际公认的档案理论。研究结果如下：（1）使用ACR DATA LOGGER（计算机辅助环境数据自动记录仪），测定了各种条件下（传统仓库和星野家主宅阁楼的3种不同类型的箱子的内部和外部）的温度和湿度。结果表明，传统的日本仓库的环境条件是稳定的，更适合保存档案材料比阁楼的生活。在三种档案容器中，桐木制成的木箱在温度和湿度的突然变化中表现出良好的缓冲功能。(2)使用个人计算机将星野家族论文的约6，000个条目的描述数据输入数据库。在此基础上，通过对输入数据的分析，尝试对星野家族文件的档案结构进行复原。由于时间和研究资源的不足，该项目最初的目的之一是提出一个档案描述标准，但没有实现。

The present research project is intended : (1) to develop safe and cheap techniques and equipments for the preservation of archival materials which are appropriate to those in private hands ; and (2) to develop standards of the arrangement and description of private archives following the internationally-acknowledged archival theories. The results of the project are as follows :(1) Temperature and humidity in various conditions (inside and outside of three different types of boxes each located in a traditional storehouse and in an attic of the main living house of the Hoshino family) was measured by ACR DATA LOGGER (a computer-assisted automatic environmental data recorder). It was revealed that the environmental condition in a traditional Japanese warehouse was stable and more appropriate for the preservation of archival materials than an attic of the living house. Among three types of archives container, a wooden box made of paulownia (kiri) demonstrated an excellent function as a buffer against the sudden change of temperature and humidity.(2) The descriptive data of about 6,000 items of the Hoshino Family Papers were inputted into the database using a personal computer. Then, the restoration of the archival structure of the Hoshino Family Papers was tried based on the analysis of the inputted data. One of the initial purposes of the project to propose a descriptive standards for archives has not been achieved because of the shortage of time and research sources.