民国档案整理工作可以分作这样两个阶段:首先是建国伊始,借鉴前苏联等国家的档案工作经验,对档案实体进行大规模的整理,编制案卷目录、卷内文件目录、全宗目录等馆藏目录;其次,随着历史档案的开放,利用工作的展开,计算机的出现,在八十年代,各地、各级档案馆纷纷开始了民国档案的分类标引和主题标引,以期实现计算机存储、检索和编目。十余年过去,分类法在各档案馆得到了普遍运用,而主题法的实践则中断了。分类标引何以一枝独秀?应该看到,分类标引相对于主题标引更简捷,能更快解决民国档案的检索工具原始、单调的弊端,而且它所依据的工具——中国档案分类法附表《民国档案分类表》(下简称《分类表》)也早已出版。相反,主题标引则繁琐些,而且也没有一部可供使用的正式的《主题词表》以规范标引结果,因而导致了它们同时起步,主题 The file consolidation work of the Republic of China can be divided into two stages as follows: Firstly, at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, drawing on the experience of archival work in the former Soviet Union and other countries, large-scale consolidation of archives entities was carried out to compile collections of files, Directory; Second, with the opening of historical archives, the use of work, the advent of computers in the eighties, all over the archives at all levels have begun the classification and indexing of the archives in the Republic of China in order to achieve computer storage, Retrieval and cataloging. In the past ten years or more, taxonomy has been universally applied in all archives, while the practice of thematic law has been discontinued. It should be noted that the classification index relative to the subject index more simple and quicker to solve the primitive and monotonous shortcomings of the retrieval tool of the Republic of China files, and it is based on the tool - Schedule of Chinese Archives Classification “Republic of China Archives Classification” (hereinafter referred to as “classification”) has also been published. On the contrary, subject headings are cumbersome, and there is no official “thesaurus” available for use to standardize the outcome of the citation, leading to their simultaneous start-up, subject matter