The Revolution And Development Research Of The Archival Profession In The Big Data Era

The archival profession is a kind of social profession which uses specialized knowledge and skills to implement archives management activities, in order to meet the social archival information and service needs, and it’s an important part of our country’s social profession system. Throughout the entire evolution course of the archival profession, at every development stage, it shows different living conditions and development trends under the influence of various complex factors. After entering the information society, the development of information technology brought good opportunities for the archival profession, and also brought many challenges for the traditional archives management mode. Only if the archival profession experiences reform could it grasp the opportunity to gain more momentum.The extensive use of information technologies and digital devices triggered the explosive growth of digital information, people’s work and life seems to be in a digital ocean. The social sectors’needs of managing effectively and processing rapidly the mass data make people aware that the big data era has been coming quietly. The social changes in the aspect of technology, thought and management have huge impact on the development of information management industry, especially the development of archival management, and further promote the reformation and development pace of the archival profession. Studying the archival professional reform and development in this background, on one hand, it can take full advantage of the big data technologies and management advantages to improve the archival profession development conditions and gain momentum for sustainable development; on the other hand, it will be helpful to rich the archival research theory and innovative archives management practices, promoting the stable development of our country’s archival undertaking.The thesis uses a variety of research methods and takes the archival profession in the big data era as research perspective, in order to promote the reform and sustainable development of the archival profession. Firstly, it analyzes comprehensively the big data era and the social changes that brought about, and it states the evolution course of our country’s archival profession as well as the effects that the social changes brought for it. Then, combining with some relevant statistical data of the Shandong province archival undertaking, it analyzes the development status and problems of the archival profession, and on that basis, proposes the topic of remodeling the archival professional function and structure in the background of big data era. It aims to promote the archival professional reform and innovation and achieve its sustainable development in the process of social transformation by a variety of measures, such as changing its development philosophy, expanding its social function, reshaping its structures and building protection mechanism.The archival professional reform and development is a process that needs long-term exploration and practice. We need to develop a rational understanding of the archival professional reform status and reform directions, and strengthen theoretical study and practical exploration continually combining with the era background, in order to help the archival profession gain stable and sustainable development momentum.