Church[edit]

A prominent Church Archives is the Vatican Secret Archive.[34] Archdioceses, dioceses, and
parishes also have archives in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. Very important
are monastery archives, because of their antiquity, like the ones of Monte Cassino, Saint Gall,
and Fulda. The records in these archives include manuscripts, papal records, local Church
records, photographs, oral histories, audiovisual materials, and architectural drawings.
Most Protestant denominations have archives as well, including the Presbyterian U.S.A Historical
Society,[35] The Moravian Church Archives,[36] The Southern Baptist Historical Library and
Archives,[37] the United Methodist Archives and History Center of the United Methodist
Church,[38] and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).[39]

Films[edit]
Main category: Film archives
See also: List of film archives and Cinematheque

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Non-profit[edit]
Non-profit archives include those in historical societies, not-for-profit businesses such as
hospitals, and the repositories within foundations. Non-profit archives are typically set up with
private funds from donors to preserve the papers and history of specific persons or places. Often
these institutions rely on grant funding from the government as well as the private
funds.[40] Depending on the funds available, non-profit archives may be as small as the historical
society in a rural town to as big as a state historical society that rivals a government archives.
Users of this type of archive may vary as much as the institutions that hold them. Employees of
non-profit archives may be professional archivists, para-professionals, or volunteers, as the
education required for a position at a non-profit archive varies with the demands of the
collection's user base.[41]

Web archiving[edit]
Main article: Web archive
Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web and ensuring the
collection is preserved in an archive, such as an archive site, for future researchers, historians,
and the public. Due to the massive size of the Web, web archivists typically employ web
crawlers for automated collection.
Similarly, software code and documentation can be archived on the web, as with the example
of CPAN.

Other[edit]
Some archives defy categorization. There are tribal archives within the Native American nations
in North America, and there are archives that exist within the papers of private individuals. Many
museums keep archives in order to prove the provenance of their pieces. Any institution or
persons wishing to keep their significant papers in an organized fashion that employs the most
basic principles of archival science may have an archive. In the 2004 census of archivists taken
in the United States, 2.7% of archivists were employed in institutions that defied categorization.
This was a separate figure from the 1.3% that identified themselves as self-employed.[42]
Another type of archive is the Public Secrets project.[43] This is an interactive testimonial, in which
women incarcerated in the California State Prison System describe what happened to them. The
archive's mission is to gather stories from women who want to express themselves, and want
their stories heard. This collection includes transcripts and an audio recording of the women
telling their stories.
The archives of an individual may include letters, papers, photographs, computer files,
scrapbooks, financial records, or diaries created or collected by the individual – regardless of
media or format. The archives of an organization (such as a corporation or government) tend to
contain other types of records, such as administrative files, business records, memos, official
correspondence, and meeting minutes.

Standardization[edit]
The International Council on Archives (ICA) has developed a number of standards on archival
description including the General International Standard Archival Description
ISAD(G).[44] ISAD(G) is meant to be used in conjunction with national standards or as a basis for
nations to build their own standards.[45] In the United States, ISAD(G) is implemented
through Describing Archives: A Content Standard, popularly known as "DACS".[46] In Canada,
ISAD(G) is implemented through the Council of Archives[47] as the Rules for Archival Description,
also known as "RAD".[48]
ISO is currently working on standards.[49][50]

Protection[edit]
The cultural property stored in archives is threatened by natural disasters, wars or other
emergencies in many countries. International partners for archives are UNESCO and Blue Shield
International in accordance with the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property
from 1954 and its 2nd Protocol from 1999. From a national and international perspective, there
are many collaborations between archives and local Blue Shield organizations to ensure the
sustainable existence of cultural property storage facilities. In addition to working with the United
Nations peacekeeping in the event of war, the protection of the archives requires the creation of
"no strike lists", the linking of civil and military structures and the training of local
personnel.[51][52][53][54]