ARCHIVE

TO PRESERVE THE PAST AND CREATE THE FUTURE

The Republic Geodetic Authority, through its specialized Archive Department, takes care of preserving, revitalizing and digitizing the entire existing archival material. The archival material represents the history of survey and maintenance, and after taking over the land registers, the history of ownership until the establishment of the Real Estate Cadastre. The Archive stores valuable documents about surveys of our territory and field work in the 20th century.

The new building of the Archive of the Republic Geodetic Authority was opened on May 27th, 2022, during the celebration of 185 years of geodetic activity in Serbia. Built according to world standards, the Archive of the Republic Geodetic Authority represents a permanent solution to the issue of document storage, with digitization that enables citizens and the business sector to access data by a single click.

Archive material has the status of permanent preservation and still has a useful value, because it is used to resolve property - legal disputes and with it the history and continuity of ownership of any property can be reconstructed.

The archive depot, in addition to the classic rooms for storing archival material, also contains specialized rooms for disinfection of infected archival material and restoration of damaged ones, as well as areas for receiving clients, scanning, photographing and has a state-of-the-art room for rapid freezing at low temperatures -20, -30, which serves to save archival materials affected by floods.

The Archive Department has valuable equipment for scanning and repair within the Section for Planning and Production of Digital Archives.

The Archive Department performs the following tasks:

• reception, analysis, storage and coding of archival documentation and archival digital data, keeping records and registers of archival documentation and archival digital data;
• all preparatory, production and control processes of digitization:
  • repair, scanning, photographing, coding and control processes;
  • classification of documentation with the application of metadata standards;
• application of protection measures, archiving and microfilming of archival documentation and archival digital data;
• distribution of archival data in the classic way and via internet services;
• receiving requests, filing and processing cases, issuing data, closing and archiving cases;
• reception of parties and officials for the purpose of inspection and issuance of archival documentation and data;
• improvement of procedures of internal units of the RGA in the area of issuing copies of archival documentation;
• system administration and implementation of protection measures and creation of backups;
• development of hardware and software for the operational needs of the Department;
• IT monitoring of the application of metadata standards with control processes;

and participation in the preparation of professional bases for the drafting of laws and proposals for by-laws from the scope of the Department, as well as professional instructions for the preparation of norms and projects for the digitization of analog materials;