Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】College personnel file management is an important part of college personnel management, which provides decision support for the rapid development of colleges and universities. The coming of the big data era has brought opportuni⁃ties and challenges to the management and utilization of personnel files in colleges and universities in China. In order to make person⁃nel file management in colleges and universities comply with the trend of datafication development, we should actively promote the transformation of file management from digitization to datafication.【Method/process】Through the research on the datafication manage⁃ment and utilization of personnel files in colleges and universities, this paper discriminates the connotation of digitization and datafica⁃tion, analyzes the organizational process of personnel files in detail, and puts forward the specific path to archival datafication, so as to
provide useful reference for relevant practice.【Result/conclusion】This paper describes the specific process organization of personnel file datafication construction at the overall framework level, and expounds four process contents: data collection, semantic organization,data mining and analysis, and data utilization and service.【Innovation/limitation】At the practical level, this paper puts forward the re⁃alization path of personnel file datafication construction.