Lexicon of Technical and Administrative Information Systems

• Archiving — The act of archiving and its result; the administrative process of sorting, classifying, and long-term storing of documents retired from current use. In computer science, it represents the action of grouping multiple files into a single file and, optionally, compressing them to save storage space.
• Archival economics — A technical subfield of archival science dealing specifically with the economic, logistical, and administrative aspects of setting up and running archive repositories; it includes the study of building designs, storage space optimization, preservation cost management, microclimate control (temperature, humidity), and the efficient use of dedicated structural furniture.