GLANCING OVER THE INTERRELATION OF HERITAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY

U radu se problematizira čuvanje arhivske, muzejske i knjižnične građe kao dijela kulturnog nasljeđa (baštine) odnosno kulturnog dobra kao svjedočanstva kulture i identiteta. Problem se razmatra u širem i užem znanstvenom kontekstu. Arhivska, muzejska i knjižnična građa postavljene u kontekst svjedočenja identiteta - jedinka, zajednica, kraj, narod i kultura - mogu potaknuti nove teorijske rasprave i ponovnu (re)konceptualizaciju arhivistike, muzeologije i knjižničarstva kao znanosti. Rasprava također ima za cilj potaknuti arhivistiku, muzeologiju i knjižničarstvo, kao znanstvene i kao praktične discipline, na otklon od jednostranosti znanstvene paradigme i od dominirajućih teorija suvremenosti, te ponuditi svestraniji pristup arhivskoj, muzejskoj i knjižničnoj građi.Putting of the archival, museum and library records, i.e. cultural legacy (heritage) in the historical, cultural, linguistic and philosophical context, in other words, considering the subject of research in the context of history, ethnology, linguistics and philosophy as scientific paradigms shows that the cultural heritage must be deliberated in the interdisciplinary way. Its result is the disclosure of a new insight in the core and the meaning of the cultural heritage; that insight being quite different from the one gained today using the paradigm of information sciences. This does not reduce the value and necessity of information sciences. Moreover, by spreading the disciplinary horizons, one only completes the knowledge on heritage. It would appear that the only right way out of the present condition of today’s science is to overcome every frame established by the science. In the age of postmodernism the truth is absolutely relative, so one should not search for it or establish it by using any scientific discipline, because that is not possible. Science can only witness events and the events (movements) themselves are the only ones to be true. That pattern of behaviour should be followed by all sciences, including information science.