User:Archives cantonales jurassiennes/en
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Overview[edit]
The ArCJ conserve over 4km of archives mainly dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. They file, collect, sort, describe and conserve documents of permanent value, of all ages and from a variety of sources. In addition to the archives produced by official bodies, the ArCJ manage the archives of the Bern period, the private archives of famous personalities, businesses, societies and associations (private deposits). They also compile documentary files concerning the history of Jura. These are made available to the general public in their reading room.
Deposits[edit]
1) Administrative archives (1979 to date). In accordance with the law governing archival storage dated 20 October 2010 (LArch: RSJU 441.21), the ArCJ work in a cross-disciplinary manner with the administration departments of the Republic and Canton of Jura to schedule the life-cycle of their files. The ArCJ conserve the archives produced by the official bodies since the accession to sovereignty of the Canton in 1979. In accordance with the LArch legislation, administrative files become public 15 years after they are closed.
2) The Bern period: 1815-1978. The ArCJ conserve the archives of the decentralised administration of the three founding districts: Delémont, les Franches-Montagnes and Porrentruy. This includes the prefectures, the land registry offices, the district courts; the district highways agencies, the district forestry administrations, the cantonal schools, and a number of other deposits. Where the hierarchical decision-making level is higher than those referred to above, case files are conserved by the Archives de l'Etat de Berne [Bern State Archives].
3) Private deposits. The ArCJ have collected over 200 private archive deposits from private individuals or legal entities that have played an important role in the history of Jura.
Amongst the natural persons the following can be mentioned:
- Auguste Viatte, a professor of French in Québec and one of the founders of the French-speaking movement;
- Eugène Péquignot, secretary of the Federal Department of the Economy for 40 years;
- and also Roland Béguelin, founder of the Rassemblement jurassien
and the following legal entities:
- the archives of the Condor company in Courfaivre, which has supplied the Swiss army with bicycles for very many years;
- the Rassemblement jurassien, a political movement at the origins of the creation of the Republic and Canton of Jura;
- the action committee opposed to the establishment of a parade ground in Franches-Montagnes.
The ArCJ in figures[edit]
- 4000 linear metres of files
- approximately 5000 maps
- 25,000 press photos
Collaboration with Wikimedia[edit]
Our collaboration with Wikimedia began with our first digitalization project about the 3000 pictures printed on original glass plates taken by Eugene Cattin (Deposit ArCJ 137 J). Learn more here
We chose to work with Wikimedia because we want to take part to the effort to make more archive material available to the public on the internet and to extend the communication around our projects with the Wikimedia community and with the Internet users in general.
This account is currently managed by :
- Gülsen Yildirim , shortly: ^GY