1. archive - Noun
2. archive - Verb
The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy library is an archive of longings. Susan Sontag
It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn't you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist? Kage Baker
No, Travaglio kills no one. With a knife. He uses a weapon much more refined and unendictable in court: the archive. Indro Montanelli
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. John Howe
I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before! Halle Berry
We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence. Lev Manovich