Research On The Process Reengineering Of Digital Archives Management

Along with the deeping development of social informatization and networked, the field of archives management has the urgent need for digitalisation.Various companies, organizations and departments produce a huge number of electronic documents and all kinds of electrons records which with the value of archives. Those documents and records are generally called digital archives. In order to meet the demand of the management of those fast growth digital archives and to satisfy the more novel and diverse demands of the users, more and more archives institutions are involved in digital archives management. There are more and more archives institutions turning into comprehensive archives institutions or beginning to build the special institution for digital archives management. Compared with the past, at present, the share of the digital archives in archives institutions showing a continued growth. And how to scientificy and effectively manage digital archives files becomes a hot item in archives academic study.Digital archives is an important part of archives resources. Compared with the traditional archives, the diagital archives are virtual, international and have other new features. Digital archives management make traditional archives management faces pressing needs for the revolution. On the one hand, the new object challenges traditional archives management methods. There is a huge difference between the traditional archives and digital archives, such aspects as content, carrier, and the circulation form. Management methods that "tailored" designed for traditional archives cann’t adapt to the new object management. Cause there is no guarantee of the efficiency of the digital archives management only within the prescribed time period to manage the digital archive. And the file management mode that rely on the forms to clearify the responsibilities is no any longer able to provide effective protection for the security of archives in the digital environment. On the other hand, the new managenent object requires technical methods to be reformed. Only using appropriate methods to manage the digital archives can adapt to the new characteristics and to meet the social demand for the digital archives. This requires archives manage workform transforms from the traditional manual, semi-automatic to automatic, informational and networked.At present, the technical improvement alone cannot effectively solve the problems existing in the digital archives management. The best solution is to carry on the revolutionary management process reengineering. Process management and process reengineering originated in the field of management. The initial application is enterprise management. But with the development of its theory and the mature of its technical methods, more and more organizations are using process reengineering to deal with the problems of business management or to improve the efficiency of the organization. The problems in digital archives management can be effectively solved by management process redesign and implmentation. Therefore, this article in view of the problems arising from the digital archives management process to put forword the process reengineering as the solution.This article firstly talks about the concept, compositions and characteristics of digital archives. And then, pay attention to the process of the digital archives management. And summarizes the general process of digital archives management based on the research of the existing literatures and national related standards. Summarise and analysis the current problems in digital archives management process. And finally solve the problems in digital archives management process on the basis of the process management theory and process reengineering theory. Improve the quality and efficiency of the digital archives management from the perspective of process reengineering.