Mission Tenet 2
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The primary obligation of all archivists must be the preservation of original materials
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Archivists’ products, such as codebooks
and cumulative data files, were unquestionably essential tools in the
evolution of social survey archives - and arguably still remain so - but the latter
can never be substitutes
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So far as the current CCESD project is concerned, the aims must be:
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However “derived” the materials, always
to provide the end-user with direct access to the original materials,
typically direct links to pdf images in the original language.
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To apply genuine scientific rigour to
the generations of all information systems, such that even the
production processes may be replicated.