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The services specified above (Archiving of documents, Conservation, storage, conservation, proper storage, u.a.) might be restricted or unavailable.

The archive is used to store, record and care for documents and other media (e. g. sound carriers, digital storage). A public archive is a non-profit organization that serves the cultural and legal-administrative of a municipality, institution, region or state.

One differentiates between the private archive (e. g. of enterprise, family, association) and public archive of research institutions, states, municipalities or authorities. Publicly owned archives are subject to archival laws.

Archive files are archived in the archive, such as: documents, files, letters, correspondence, plans, maps, atlases, books, inventories, films, photos, sound recordings and other material that might be historically, legally and politically relevant. The documents are listed, entered into archive databases, digitized and kept as resistant to aging as possible. There are Church archives, public archives, research archives, museum archives, corporate archives, family archives, city archives, state archives and other kinds of archives.