Wioletta Lipińska, Problemy dokumentacji technicznej w świetle polskiej literatury archiwistycznej po 1945 r., w: Archeion, t. 111, wyd. NDAP, Warszawa 2010, ss.  126-148

"Data pertaining to technical solutions applied in civil engineering, industrial

manufacturing or scientific research is included in textual, numerical and graphic

materials forming a collection referred to as technical documentation. After World

War II the volume of such documentation kept growing, mostly in connection with

the rebuilding of the country. It was in this period that it became significant, being

an important source of information, useful in recreation of some sets of buildings.

The increase in the volume of technical documentation in companies and State

institutions was accompanied by attempts made by the Polish archiving service to

standardise the rules of handling of such documentation. The first step was to

include it in the archiving law in the definition of archival materials. This way, technical

documentation could be included in State archival holdings and Polish

archivists could undertake development of regulations permitting classification,

qualification and handover of technical documentation to State archives.

Imprecise definition of technical documentation did not facilitate work on the

rules related to development of an archival holding comprised of such documentation.

However, the issue of the value of technical documentation was raised in literature,

where attempts were made to show the possibilities of it application in science

and economy. Considerable losses in the holdings of the documentation created

in the first years after World War II were also emphasised. Due to dispersion of

large amounts of materials, postulates to establish the fate of the lost documentation

appeared. 1954 witnessed the publication of Instructions on the manner and

procedure of managing a technical archive, developed by Grzegorz Trzciñski. While

dealing with the issue of missing records, Maria Bieliñska observed the separate

nature of technical documentation. However, even 10 years later Czes³aw Biernat

wrote about the little experience archives had in development of technical documentation.

He noted that contrary to archive documentation, the facility to which

the material is linked is of the greatest significance in selection of technical documentation.

In 1960 archival methodology was enriched by guidelines of the Head

Office of State Archives pertaining to registration and assessment of technical

documentation of technical archives, as well as to its handover to State archives. In

2000 an example of a technical documentation qualifier was added to methodological

regulations. The issue of technical documentation is almost absent in the

literature raising the issues of archive materials digitalisation. The subject may be

represented only by general references to non-archive documentation. However, in

the case of technical documentation, the dilemma of preserving information and

documentation will become more and more up-to-date. Archival science ought to

learn its lessons from those changes."

 

 

 

 

 

Żródło: Archeion, t. 111