TTLA: Policies for managing people's archives in Vietnam

1. Full name of doctoral candidate: Pham Thi Dieu Linh 2. Gender: Female

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

5. Decision No. 2999/QD/XHNV-SDH dated December 30, 2013, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi, recognizing the doctoral student.

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

7. Thesis title: Policies for managing people's archives in Vietnam

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

10. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duong Van Kham

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis

By employing a variety of research methods including policy text analysis, sociological surveys, and case studies, the thesis has achieved the following key results:

- To establish a basic theoretical framework regarding the concept and characteristics of people's archival documents;

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

- Identify areas of consensus and disagreement among managers and owners regarding the management of public archives.

- Two basic policy options have been developed: state archives – community archives and community archives – state coordination; each policy option includes objectives and a number of basic policy solutions suitable to the current policy environment in Vietnam and drawing on international experience.

12. Practical applications of the thesis

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

- Develop policies for managing public archives in the future. New policies could include macro-level adjustments by the state, such as amending certain provisions in laws, developing and implementing state-level programs and projects, and possibly more micro-level measures to be applied specifically in state or private archives, such as changing the focus of collection activities, strengthening expert cooperation to diversify and improve the quality of archival collections;…

- To create a scientific basis for forming expert groups to research, collect, preserve, and promote the value of people's archival documents;

- Initially, thematic content was formed for teaching and research on people's archives and archival policies;

13. Future research directions

- The research most closely related to the thesis that needs to be undertaken is the assessment of the policy's impact on affected groups;

- Further research directions that could develop from this thesis include: classification and categorization of people's archival documents, building a database of archival documents in Vietnam, copyright in archiving, and many other in-depth research directions related to professional practices.

- Potential areas of research include: personal and community archives; specialized archives linked to personal and community archives; traditional community archives and new types of community archives; ...

14. Published works related to the dissertation

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2014), “People's archival documents during the Republic of Vietnam period”,Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on Archives of the Republic of Vietnam (1955 - 1975) – Historical and Archival Perspectives, p. 241.

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2015), “Value-based approach to people's archival documents: A general overview of basic theoretical viewpoints”,Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Humanities – Theoretical and Practical Approaches(Scientific Conference of Young Faculty Members and Postgraduate Students of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities), Vietnam National University, Hanoi, p. 696.

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2015), “Democratic trends in archival law during the period 1982 – 2012”,Journal of Archival Studies(11).

- Pham Thi Dieu Linh (2017), “Managing archival documents from the private sector: Opinions from the people”,Journal of Archival Studies(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 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).