TTLA: Policy on management of people's archives in Vietnam

1. Full name of PhD student: Pham Thi Dieu Linh 2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: October 11, 1983 4. Place of birth: Hanoi

5. Decision on recognition of PhD students No. 2999/QD/XHNV-SDH dated December 30, 2013 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU

6. Changes in training process: Extending the study period from January 2017 to July 2018

7. Thesis topic: Policy on managing people's archives in Vietnam

8. Major: Archival Studies 9. Code: 62 32 03 01

10. Scientific advisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Van Kham

11. Summary of new results of the thesis

By using a variety of research methods including policy document analysis, sociological investigation and case study, the thesis has achieved the following basic results:

- Build a basic theoretical framework on the concept and characteristics of people's archives;

- Demonstrate the lack of consistency, overlap and lack of coherence of current policies and laws on people's archives;

- Identify the consensus and disagreement in the views of managers and owners on the management of people's archives.

- Two basic policy options have been developed: state archives - community archives and community archives - state coordination; each policy option includes goals and some basic policy solutions suitable for Vietnam's current policy environment and references to international experience.

12. The applicability of the thesis in practice

The results of the thesis can be referenced and applied to:

- Develop policies for the management of people's archives in the coming time. New policies can be macro-level government adjustments such as changing some provisions in the law, developing and implementing state-level programs and projects, and can be more micro-level measures to be applied specifically in state or private archives such as changing the focus of collection activities, enhancing expert cooperation to diversify and improve the quality of archival collections;...

- Create a scientific basis to form groups of experts to research, collect, preserve and promote the value of people's archives;

- Initially form thematic content for teaching and researching people's archives and archival policies;

13. Further research directions

- The closest research to the thesis that needs to be carried out is to evaluate the impact of the policy on the affected subjects;

- Further research directions that can be developed from the thesis include: classification and categorization of people's archives, construction of a database of archives in Vietnam, copyright in archives, and many other specialized research directions.

- Possible research directions include: personal archives and community archives; specialized archives associated with personal archives and community archives; traditional community archives and new-style community archives; ...

14. Published works related to the thesis

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2014), "People's archives during the Republic of Vietnam period",Proceedings of the scientific conference Archives of the Republic of Vietnam (1955 - 1975) - Historical and Archival Perspectives, p. 241.

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2015), “Approaching the value of people's archives: A summary of basic theoretical perspectives”,Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Humanities – Approaches from Theoretical and Practical Perspectives(Scientific conference of young staff and postgraduate students of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities), VNU, p. 696.

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2015), "Democratic trends in archival law in the period 1982 - 2012",Archives Magazine(11).

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2017), “Managing archives from the private sector: Opinions from the people”,Archives Magazine(4).

INFORMATION ON DOCTORAL THESIS

1. Name: Pham Thi Dieu Linh 2. Sex: Female

3. Day of birth: October 11, 1983 4. Place of birth: Hanoi

5. Admission decision number: 2999/QD/XHNV- SĐH Date: December 30, 2013

6. Changes of Academic process: Extending study time from 01.2017 to 7.2018

7. Official thesis title: Public policy on people archives in Vietnam

8. Major: Archival study 9. Code: 62 32 03 01

10. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. DUONG Van Kham

11. Summery of new findings of the thesis

- Specifying the concept “people archives” and characteristics of them;

- Identifying and proving all fundamental issues in the current public policies and laws on people archives;

- Discovering which ideas have been consensual and shared or not between people and offices;

- Drafting some solutions for future policies

12. Practical applicability

The results can apply to:

- Make new policy on people archives in Vietnam;

- Create new ideas for interdiciplinary experts work in new researches;

- Figure out new subjects in archival study to teach students in the future.

13. Future research directions:

This research can be continued in several topics such as:

- Impacts of new policy on holders, users, archival organizations and others

- Classifying and re-appraisal archival records

- Communities'archives and archival communites, personal archives, special archives, traditional communities' archives and new communities' archives

14. Thesis - related puctions:

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2014), “People archives in the time of Republic of Vietnam”,Republic of Vietnam Archives (1955 - 1975) – Historical and Archival Appr, pp.241-249.

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2015), “Appraisal approach on people archives: A literature review on fundamental idea”,Interdiscipline research in social and humanities sciences – Theories and Practice, pp.696 - 708.

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2015), “Democratic trend in archival law from 1982 – 2012”,Records and Archives(11).

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2017), “Archival records management in private sector: Responses from people”,Records and Archives(4).