Definition of archives (document management)

Standardized techniques for managing documents in an organization or entity
The concept of archiving or document management is used in our language to refer to standardized techniques used at the behest of the administration of documents belonging to an organization or entity, a company or a library, to cite a few current examples.

A stale discipline that evolved beautifully thanks to new technologies

We must point out that although the techniques and practices that apply have been varying and evolving as a direct consequence of the advance of new technologies in almost all areas, and of course the archival was no exception, we must say, that archive is a certainly aged activity and which is displayed by man since time immemorial before the imperative need to document administrative, legal or commercial trace of everything done.
To give us an idea of the tremendous evolution that occurred in the field of media and storage techniques we don't have more to say that more primitive men dismissed its "documents" on sheets of papyrus or on clay, while today do it on the computer or any other electronic device.

The great contribution of computing and the Internet

In this sense we can not ignore that data processing and the subsequent development of the internet have enabled a breakthrough in the field of document management making much more practical and simple the task both with regard to the storage of information as in the field of recovery of stored documents.
Because clear before, responsible for this task, archivists, librarians, or archivist, among other denominations that have been attributed to those who develop this task, they should use and avail themselves of heavy books of registration cards, folders, boxes, shelves, while now just click to arrange the file as also the recovery of documents or works.

Main tasks displays

Basically, the archival, will deal with: generate and of a set of rules and practices that allow the identification of the documents that are filing, retrieving information from them, the time that should be archived in the case of those who may be disposed to last some time and instead must guarantee the preservation of those documents that have great value.