An Archive consists of earlier versions of Content or content no longer in use.

Archived content may be moved from the main database Repository into an Offline? store for performance reasons.

For a Weblog, the archive is generally all the posts earlier than the current displayed selection. For a Mailing List, it is a threaded display of messages, arranged by date or thread.

With today's vast hard drive memory capacities, many organizations are archiving everything as permanent institutional memory.