文件连续体理论核心术语解析--兼论我国档案学语境下的误读

Analysis of the Core Terminologies of Records Continuum Theory——Additional Discussion on Misreading in the Context of Chinese Archival Science

20世纪90年代,以弗兰克·阿普沃德为代表的澳大利亚连续体理论者吸收安东尼·吉登斯的结构化理论思想,正式提出多维、动态、宏观的文件连续体理论,这使得从实践中总结出的连续体方法进一步升华为具有时空结构的概念模型。它已经超出了官方文档管理实践的范围,高度概括了人类社会中的一切records管理行为。因此,文件连续体模型中文件保管形式轴上对应四个维度的坐标(Archival)document、Record(s)、Archive和Archives也被赋予了与管理实践不同的概念内涵。本文在正确理解这四个核心术语的基础上,指出我国档案界仅从档案管理实践角度理解文件连续体理论是十分片面的,偏离了其核心思想,是对文件连续体理论的误读。具体而言,这种误读体现在对"连续体"概念,文件连续体理论和文件生命周期理论、文件运动规律的关系理解等方面。

In the 1990 s,Australian continuum theorists,represented by Frank Upward,absorbing the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens,proposed the multidimensional,dynamic and macroscopic records continuum theory,which further sublimated the continuum method summarized from practice into a conceptual model with space-time structure.It is beyond the scope of official records and archives management practices and highly summarizes recordkeeping behavior in human society of all forms.Therefore,the four coordinates,which are(Archival)document,Record(s),Archive,and Archives on the axis of recordkeeping containers in the records continuum model are endowed with different conceptual connotations from practice.Based on the correct understanding of four core terms,this paper points out that it is insufficient to understand the records continuum theory only from the perspective of Chinese archival management practice,which deviates from its theoretical idea of continuum.Specifically,the misinterpretation is reflected in the understanding of concept of"continuum",the relationship between the records continuum theory and both the records life cycle theory and the law of records movement.