• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.36
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• pp.195-231
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• 2013

Locality documentation and archival contents development cover local historical characters that are mirrors reflecting localities. The study is to propose a methodology of designing archival contents for documenting a local historical character representing the locality based on his/her records. By the methodology, sample archival contents, Park Ki-jong contents is designed because he is the most representative of the locality of Busan between the late 1800 and the early 1900. Firstly, it asks a question on how it chooses a character representing the target locality. After the character is selected, his/her life and context is analysed. Based on the analysis, it set up the coverage of developing the contents and identifies relevant records and materials. Finally, the archival content for a local historical character is designed. It is important that the study proposes a method of developing archival contents which can be applied to a character-oriented archival contents development. For reviewing the applicability of the method, it is expected of further practical uses in character-oriented archival contents development representing the localities.