CM manual Manage your archival landscape

The archival landscape comprises, for each country, the different archival institutions. It is the entry point to the 3-layer structure -country, institution, archival content- of the portal. It is the first level of this hierarchical structure, on which is based the navigation tree structure of the advanced search as well as the directory of the portal. Each country manager is responsible of the archival landscape of his country (creating the countries is done by the general administrator). You can organise your national archival landscape as you want, since geographical, thematic, administrative classification of the archives are different in each country. The aim of this national coordination is to define the structure of the archival institutions within the country. It may be necessary or useful to discuss it with other institutions to agree on the definitive structure. It’s recommended to have your structure in mind before beginning the actual creation in the Dashboard. Please be aware, that you should not change your archival landscape too often because it has consequences on the data indexing.