Guidelines for Auditing the Handling of Electronic Documents as a Result of Changes Postulated by the Archives Community

Abstract

The emergence of legal acts on the computerisation of public administration in Poland, the spread of electronic documentation and various types of IT tools and electronic document management systems have not always improved the performance of office activities and the documentation of cases. The lack of guidance on the rules for archival audits of electronic records, which are collected, produced and stored differently in the organisational units under archival supervision, has resulted in a marked diversity in the verification and description of data collected during archival audits. The article includes examples of problems raised by the archives community and attempts to analyse guidelines for carrying out controls on the handling of electronic documents.