Archives, Archivists and Internet. New devices within old sciences

This essay aims to shed light on the intriguing domains of archives through a cross-disciplinary approach encompassing Comparative Public Law, Legal History and Philosophy. The core subject matter tries to delineate both the potential within digital archives and their prospective contribution to information management, considering its quasi-exponential growth. To contextualize these traits a general reflection about past and contemporary institutional frames, coupled with a brief methodological excursus on technology, has been undertaken also in order to figure out how past experiences’ resolutions may offer performative solutions to informational issues at any stage.