Archival theory comprises the ideas about the nature of archival material as they have developed overtime, confronted with the record reality of different cultures and juridical contexts. It constitutes the core of archival science. Archival science comprises also the principles and methods for the control and preservation of archival material (i.e., archival methodology), the analysis of archi...

The use of archival sources is widely understood to be an important tool research tool, but attempts to use archival material for hypothesis testing, as opposed to description or theory development, are troubled by the large size and often opaque structure of archives; factors which lead to misinterpretations of evidence and a tendency to confirm the author’s expectations. This paper discusses ...

We propose to process and combine with state-of-the-art tools the majority of the WFPC2 images obtained as part of Archival Pure Parallel Program, consisting of observations of over 3,000 random pointings primarily in the wide WFPC2 UBV I filters. We will produce combined and cosmic-ray cleaned images, as well as object catalogs, for over 2,000 of these pointings. We will use these data to addr...