The article deals with the ongoing research project of the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences on typological survey in personal archives of scientists. The project has as goal to know the documents and identify the activities that produced it with a view to drawing up a glossary. The survey adopts an archival approach where it is necessary to understand the document according to the activity that produced it. Some typological studies carried out in institutional and personal archives were used as a reference, as well as academic papers on the topic. The article presents some documentary types found in the personal archives of the physical Bernhard Gross as an example of the survey, and the future perspective for the project.
Typology of documents; Personal archives; Information retrieval
