On the question of the concept of "documentation system"
The article deals with the formation and development of the concept of "documentation system" in the early 1970s. The author notes the great influence of the development of scientific and technological progress and the introduction of automated control systems on the development of the practice of working with documents and the theory of document management, one of the key issues of which was the study of documentation systems. The effectiveness of mastering the concept is due to the need to consider documentation systems not only taking into account their properties as a system, but also taking into account the specifics of social systems. The social specificity of documentary systems connects them with the functional and branch principle of formation.