동학농민혁명기록물의 기록학적 가치 제고 방안

Abstract

In June 2017, The Cultural Heritage Administration of South Korea decided to submit documents related to the Donghak Peasant Revolution to be considered and registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World in March 2018. The Donghak Peasant Revolution was a great event that has both domestic and international importance. The legislation of the ‘Special Act for Recovering the Honor of the Participants of the Donghak Peasant Revolution’ in 2004 was a historical occasion, one which caused the event to be thought of as a ‘revolution’ rather than as a ‘revolt.’ This was a process of modernizing a tragic episode in history, which was possible thanks to consistent collection and excavation of relevant materials. The documents of the Donghak Peasant Revolution include all kinds of materials, like descriptions, documents, and archives that are related to the 1894 Donghak Peasant Revolution. This paper aims to establish a method for improving the archival value of the 175 listings that were planned to be sent to be considered as the UNESCO Memory of the World. The documents of the Donghak Peasant Revolution were collected and sorted according to specific subjects. In fact, they have been collected separately by many institutes without consideration for their production, and the relationships between the different documents are still unclear. In order to improve the value of these documents, more extensive investigation of the related materials should be followed and the relationship between each and every document should be studied further. Collected records should be rearranged after developing unique technical rules based on international standards like ISAD(G) or ISAAR(CPF). Considering the preservation status of the records, the technical rules should include a special method that can gather together the information gleaned from the records that have been collected by various institutes. Also, the new concepts of the documents of the Donghak Peasant Revolution should be applied to newly produced materials from the related research, studies, and memorial projects. The value of the materials of the Donghak Peasant Revolution is sure to rise when the policies for current documents are established and implemented in the light of archival management.