档案是出于人类存贮信息的需要而产生和发展起来的,是一种信息资源。人类社会一产生,人们就开始利用信息来为自己服务,从原始的结绳记事,到刻契、直到纸制文书的出现,以及当代社会中的影片、照片、录音和录像等等,都是承载和传递信息的工具,人们将其中有价值的通过整理后保存起来。 File is generated and developed for the needs of mankind to store information, which is an information resource. As soon as human society came into existence, people began to use information to serve themselves, from the primitive knot to the deed until the advent of paper-based instruments, as well as films, photographs, sound recordings and videos in contemporary society, etc. The tools that carry and deliver information, and people save valuable ones through collation.