Archival Policies

As the faithful custodian of Maria Montessori’s legacy, vision and impact, the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) seeks to create an unparalleled Montessori digital library and archive.

Key goals in this endeavour include:

  • Preserve, secure and provide open access to digital data to ensure that the legacy and life’s work of Maria Montessori will be made available to the world in perpetuity
  • Collect and publish archival documents, materials and artefacts enabling access, actual and virtual, leading to increased scholarship and knowledge of Maria Montessori and Montessori education
  • Catalogue, review, and preserve documents and materials for the archives
  • Develop an archive library and resource centre, actual and online
  • Create an online website of historical facts relating to Maria Montessori

AMI has established the following policy and standards framework to guide this work drawing from international best practices. AMI supports UNESCO’s promotion of Open Access.

 

Maria Montessori, 1913, Reading Book

Digital Preservation Policy

This policy describes the digital preservation principles and approaches to preserving, securing and sharing digital data of enduring value. The policy should be read in conjunction with the Digital Repository Policy and the Preservation Digitisation Standards.

Digital Repository Policy

The Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) will preserve, secure and provide open access to digital data to ensure that the legacy and life’s work of Maria Montessori will be made available to the world in perpetuity.

Preservation Digitisation Standards

This document provides the standards for the digitisation of physical records to ensure the preservation, security and usage of data in accordance with AMI’s digital repository policy and digital preservation guidelines. The aim is to provide a digitised replication (a digital surrogate) of the phys...

File Naming Conventions

The AMI Montessori Archives observes the following conventions for file naming. Use a consistent file naming convention. Document the file naming convention. File names must be unique. File names should be short but descriptive (less than 25 characters) (Briney, 2015). File names should have a distinctiv...

Style Guidelines and Conventions

The Association Montessori Internationale uses the following style guidelines for its publications and websites. British English is used for spelling, date formats and punctuation. For all other editorial style conventions, AMI refers to the The Chicago Manual of Style. Citations follow The Chicago Man...

Editorial Policy

A caveat regarding the editorial policy to not change some of Montessori’s gender language in some articles. Maria Montessori studied and pioneered her revolutionary approach to education in a male dominated world, a world in which recognition of female achievement did not come easily. Being trained ...