Thoughts On Theoretical Deepening And Innovation Of Compilation Science Of Archival Documents

The history of file and document compiling in China has been lasting for more than 2000 years since Confucius' Six Books, which lays a foundation and makes a frame for the traditional theory of compile files and documentary in China. Until the end of the 19^th and the beginning of the 20^th century, the file and document compiling in China had formed a unique and traditional way, which became the guide for the later generations. As time passed by, people's view of carrying on the file and document compiling as a settled theory, that is to say, they regard concrete way of file and document compiling as the principal part of all researches, but rarely touch those related social problems. However, when the tendency of utilizing information has became one of the symbols in a information society, when people pays more and more attention to the copyright with the coming of a society of legal system, when information personalize service has became the developing tendency of utilizing and managing information, when a series of social transform which brought from the information society, those file and document compilers deeply feels that all the challenges and puzzles of traditional file and document compiling lies in front of them. We can say it like this, under the new social reality, there are two choices for those compilers: one is to stick to traditional way and theory of compiling, passively accepted by the society; the other one is to facing the challenge, analyzing the long-term existed traditional research mode and structure of theory, then, find out the new value increase point which can adapt to the need of social change, and finally extricate itself from the predicament and find a new way of developing. Obviously, the second choice has more positive meaning and creative value than the first one.