Almost six months have elapsed since the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) found a batch of railway documents dating back to the Japanese colonial era in one of its warehouses. However, nothing has been done yet to restore the documents, as two local archive-preserving organizations continue to fight over their ownership.
A specialist surnamed Chen (陳) at the National Taiwan Museum told the Taipei Times that the documents were in temporary storage at the museum, as the Council of Cultural Affairs (CCA) and the National Archives Administration (NAA) were still negotiating over who would get to keep them.
The museum cannot do anything with the documents at this point, because it has yet to ascertain who will pay for the restoration, Chen said.
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"A lot of organizations have laid claim to the documents," Ho said. "The problem is that no one has ever looked at them to see if they are entitled to own them."
Ho said the CCA considers the documents as cultural assets and that they should therefore be under its management. The NAA, on the other hand, says that any official document dating before 1949 should be placed under its management in accordance with the National Archives Act (國家檔案法).
The TRA supports the idea of having other organizations preserve the original documents, since it has neither the facilities nor the manpower to manage these valuable resources, Ho said.
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"Should this be the case, the CCA should pay for the restoration," he said.
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