The EU's legal framework for public archives: from personal data to artificial intelligence.
| dc.contributor.author | Drechsler, Laura | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Herrebout, Els | |
| dc.date | 2026-05-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-05-06T16:11:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-05-06T16:11:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | DRECHSLER, Laura (2026). The EU's legal framework for public archives: from personal data to artificial intelligence. In Els HERREBOUT (Ed.), International Archives Symposium in Namur (2025). Open Data and AI. New chances for Archives? Proceedings (Miscellanea Archivistica Studia, 225, pp. 27–40). State Archives of Belgium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20056357 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Publication reference number: 6668 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14699 | |
| dc.description | Public archives are increasingly subject to EU data legislation, a development that fundamentally transforms their legal status and operational obligations. This contribution maps the legal challenges arising from two interconnected strands of EU law: EU data protection legislation (most prominently the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) and the EU's broader digital rulebook, including the Open Data Directive, the Data Governance Act, and the AI Act. Archives, once governed almost exclusively by national archival law, are now classified as public sector bodies, data holders, and controllers, each classification carrying distinct compliance obligations. Key challenges include determining what qualifies as personal data in archival collections, navigating the right to erasure, and reconciling the GDPR's data minimisation principle with the digital rulebook's push for broader data sharing. The emergence of artificial intelligence further compounds these challenges. | en_US |
| dc.description | This conference paper is published as part of <a href="https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14703" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>International Archives Symposium in Namur (2025). Open Data and AI. New chances for Archives? Proceedings</strong></a>. | |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | State Archives of Belgium | en_US |
| dc.title | The EU's legal framework for public archives: from personal data to artificial intelligence. | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en_US |
| dc.subject.frascati | Computer and information sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject.frascati | Archival Science | |
| dc.audience | Scientific | en_US |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | Not pertinent | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20056357 | |
| dc.accessrights | Open access | |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open access | |
| dcterms.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dcterms.type | Published version |
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