CNAE 91.12—Archive activities

Where 91.12 sits

1. S Artistic, Sports and Entertainment Activities
2. 91 Activities of libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
3. 91.1 Library and archive activities
4. 91.12 Archive activities

What 91.12 includes

• Archive activities include the activities carried out by archival services of all types, with a view to building, storing, classifying, physical or digital archive collections and communicating them to the general public or to a particular category of users.
• Activities of public archives providing a service to the general public or to a special clientele (e.g. students, scientists, staff members) as well as the operation of government archives
• Activities related to the acquisition or collection of archives
• Activities related to the identification, stocktaking, description and classification of archives
• Activities related to the safety and maintenance of archive items (monitoring of the sanitary status and of climatic conditions, safety and security, rehabilitation)
• Activities related to the communication of archives to the public on site or remotely
• Digitisation of archival documents for digital archive collections
• Archiving of all kinds of documents (in paper or electronic form)

What 91.12 excludes

• Retail sale of manuscripts (see 47.69)
• Storage of data files (see 63.10)
• Digitisation of files (linked to further processing of data) (see 63.10)
• Digitisation of files (without any other related activity) (see 82.10)
• Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage (see 91.30)

91.12 in other systems