“Documentation Management in Digital Environment” – Educational Professional Programme of Digital Direction

Abstract

The aim of the article is to outline the IT management component that determines the innovativeness of educational professional programme of the document studies profile “Documentation Management in Digital Environment”. The research methodology: terminological analysis in order to found the terms “documentation management” and “organisation digital environment”; hypothetical and deductive in order to identify labour functions, tasks and types of activity of a certain documentation management specialist in digital environment. The scientific novelty is based on the offer of educational professional programme of the document studies profile “Documentation Management in Digital Environment” as a relevant specialisation in conditions of society digital transformations in general, and the document and informational sphere in particular, as well as grounding the specialist’s labour functions, tasks and types of activity. The definition of “documentation management in enterprise digital environment” is suggested as a multifunctional activity direction in organising management documentation software, carried out through strategic planning, construction management, and the usage of the enterprise digital infrastructure. Conclusions. The implementation of state programmes of digitalisation in all spheres of public practice requires an appropriate personnel providing – document studies profile specialists in educational professional programme with a code title “Documentation Management in Digital Environment”, and with the qualification “document studies specialist, manager of documentation management in digital environment”. The generalised direction of the specialist’s activity is strategic planning and management in the implementation of a unified system in organisation document management. Modern technical and technological requirements for competences in the field of document management in digital environment include knowledge of digital technology trends, standards and regulatory documents, that control the life cycle of IT systems and products, as well as the ability to ground the organisation technological policy, etc. The innovativeness of educational professional programme is determined by the component “IT management” in the object of the document studies specialist’s research work and activity. The convergence of the offered educational professional programme requires a substantive content consideration of its IT-management component for forming training plans, the imperative of which is a basic documentation education in speciality “Information, Library and Archive Act”.