Abstract

MARIN AGUDELO, Sebastián Alejandro. Social appropiation of knowledge: A new dimension of archives. Rev. Interam. Bibliot [online]. 2012, vol.35, n.1, pp.55-62. ISSN 0120-0976.

Social appropriation of knowledge is a theme of recent concern by scientific communities, governments and mass media and it is assumed as a commitment to the community. This article aims to contribute to the theme from the archives. First: as social appropriation places of the socio-cultural knowledge through the retrieval of memory for the construction of identity and citizenship. Second: as information units supporting social appropriation processes of the scientific-technological knowledge, by the implementation of scientific archives in new environments like the virtual and the digital.

Keywords : social appropriation of knowledge; memory; diffusion of archives; scientific archives; open archives.

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