id: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/class/CompanyArchives
name: CompanyArchives
title: Company Archives Type
prefixes:
  linkml: https://w3id.org/linkml/
  schema: http://schema.org/
  org: http://www.w3.org/ns/org#
  rico: https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology#
imports:
- linkml:types
- ./ArchiveOrganizationType
- ./CollectionType
- ./Department
- ./OrganizationBranch
- ./CompanyArchiveRecordSetTypes
- ../slots/has_or_had_branch
- ../slots/is_or_was_archive_department_of
- ../slots/hold_or_held_record_set_type
- ../slots/parent_corporation
- ../slots/has_or_had_scope
- ./Scope
- ../slots/has_or_had_identifier
- ./WikiDataIdentifier
- ./CompanyArchivesRecordSetType
classes:
  CompanyArchives:
    is_a: ArchiveOrganizationType
    class_uri: skos:Concept
    description: "Organizational entity that keeps or archives fonds of a company,\npreserving corporate records and business heritage.\n\n**Wikidata**: Q10605195\n\n**Scope**:\nCompany archives (Unternehmensarchive) preserve:\n- Corporate governance records (board, shareholders)\n- Financial and accounting records\n- Product development and design documentation\n- Marketing and advertising materials\n- Personnel records (historical)\n- Correspondence and contracts\n- Photographs and audiovisual materials\n- Technical drawings and blueprints\n- Corporate publications\n\n**Organizational Context**:\nCompany archives are typically organized as:\n\n1. **Departments within corporations** (`org:OrganizationalUnit`):\n   - Archive department under Records Management division\n   - Historical archives team within Communications/PR\n   - Technical archives under Engineering department\n   \n2. **Branches at corporate facilities** (`org:OrganizationalUnit`):\n   - Central archive at headquarters\n\
      \   - Regional archive at manufacturing sites\n   - Research archive at R&D centers\n   \n3. **Standalone heritage organizations** (rare):\n   - Independent foundation managing corporate heritage\n   - Heritage society for defunct companies\n\n**Relationship to Parent Organization**:\n\n| Pattern | Property | Example |\n|---------|----------|---------|\n| Archive as department | `schema:department` / `org:hasUnit` | Philips Archive is department of Philips N.V. |\n| Archive as branch | `org:hasSite` / `org:unitOf` | Shell Archive at The Hague HQ |\n| Archive with parent org | `schema:parentOrganization` | Unilever Historical Archives \u2192 Unilever PLC |\n\n**W3C ORG / Schema.org Alignment**:\n- `schema:parentOrganization` - Links archive to the corporation it belongs to\n- `schema:department` - Corporation links to its archive department\n- `org:unitOf` - Archive is organizational unit of corporation\n- `org:hasUnit` - Corporation has archive as organizational unit\n\n**Business\
      \ Value**:\nCompany archives support:\n- Legal and regulatory compliance\n- Intellectual property protection\n- Corporate identity and branding\n- Historical marketing campaigns\n- Anniversary and commemorative projects\n- Due diligence for mergers and acquisitions\n\n**Related Types**:\n- BankArchive (Q52718263) - Financial institution archives\n- EconomicArchive (Q27032167) - Economic history focus\n- InstitutionalArchive (Q124762372) - Institutional records\n- Department - Formal departmental structure within organization\n- OrganizationBranch - Physical branch locations of archive\n\n**Professional Body**:\nCompany archivists often belong to:\n- International Council on Archives Section for Business Archives\n- Vereinigung deutscher Wirtschaftsarchivare (VdW)\n- Business Archives Council (UK)\n"
    slots:
    - parent_corporation
    - is_or_was_archive_department_of
    - has_or_had_branch
    - has_or_had_identifier
    - hold_or_held_record_set_type
    slot_usage:
      has_or_had_identifier: null
      hold_or_held_record_set_type:
        equals_expression: '["hc:CorporateGovernanceFonds", "hc:ProductDevelopmentCollection", "hc:MarketingArchiveCollection", "hc:PersonnelRecordsSeries", "hc:CorporatePublicationsSeries"]

          '
    see_also:
    - BankArchive
    - EconomicArchive
    - InstitutionalArchive
    - CompanyArchiveRecordSetType
    - CorporateGovernanceFonds
    - ProductDevelopmentCollection
    - MarketingArchiveCollection
    - PersonnelRecordsSeries
    - CorporatePublicationsSeries
    annotations:
      specificity_score: 0.1
      specificity_rationale: Generic utility class/slot created during migration
      custodian_types: "['*']"
      custodian_types_rationale: Universal utility concept