The State Archives of Montenegro (DACG) is unique in Europe and beyond. An insight into the valuable material they keep is only available in the way it was 30 or 50 years ago - by hand. Advanced technology in the form of an information system has not yet taken root, although the government has allocated almost 18 euros to the State Archives for this purpose over the past 200.000 years.
"The system is not at a high technological level, it is only in the initial test phase, it functions in a way that only archive officials can access it, it is not yet available for users-researchers", says the answers that were forwarded to Monitor from the State Archives and which is signed by director Saša Tomanović.
It was noticed as early as 1999 that this way of running the Archives is not suitable for the times. Then it was noted that documents from the oldest funds were missing.
But the record of inspection supervision of Jugooceanija Kotor from May of last year proves that the materials are deteriorating even from recent times. The significance of that archival material for Montenegro, for maritime traffic and the economy is apostrophized... The report then states that the material of Jugooceanija was actually destroyed! It is particularly noteworthy that the oldest structure that was located on Vrmac hill, the period from 1955 to 1988, was totally destroyed and nothing remains of it.
In order to bring order, the Council was formed to monitor the implementation of the project for the Information System in the State Archives of Montenegro. The Council included Miodrag Ivanović, M.Sc., Vujica Lazović, Ph.D., Branislav Radulović and Borivoje Marić, Stevan Šćepanović and Radovan Rutešić participated in the negotiations with the then director of DACG Rajko Kalezić and other members of the administration of this institution by the Faculty of Science and Mathematics (PMF).
In the minutes of the meetings of the Council, which the Monitor had access to, it is stated that the task of implementing the information system in DACG is entrusted to PMF and the Republic Secretariat for Development. Vujica Lazović's proposal to do the work through direct contracting, without calling for a tender, was then accepted. It was reasoned that announcing the tender would take a lot of time!..
READ MORE IN THE NEW ISSUE OF MONITOR
Bonus video:
