Volume 30, Issue 2, 2021
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.4023
Prospect of Archive Dataization in Big Data Age: Significance and Dilemma
Abstract
The rising tide of datafication in big data era has aroused the attention of the archival community on the trend of archives datafication. Archives datafication is regarded as a new stage of the development of archives digitization. It refers to the process that archives departments transform digital archives resources into archives data resources that can be read, analyzed and processed with the orientation of users' needs and business needs. Archives datafication is of great practical significance to the data transformation and in-depth development of archival work in big data era. It is helpful to break through the bottleneck of the in-depth development of archives information resource, innovate the demand-oriented archives service model, and promote the realization of the intelligent management of archives business process. However, due to the existence of many uncertain factors, archives datafication is also faced with dilemmas, which are mainly ref lected in the policy and motivation level and the talent and technology level.
Keywords
Big data; Archives datafication; Archives digitization; Archives information resource development; Smart archives; Archives service