Single word for 'circulation of documents'

Question

There is a kind of technical/accounting term in Russian: документооборот or делопроизводство. It describes the set of actions and processes for the purpose of formal document management in a large organization. For example, documents should be reviewed, approved, tagged, properly structured, have mandatory references, etc. Dictionary suggests to use "documents circulation", but I'm afraid that's not what I want. I expect there to be another word (or combination) I can use. Would you suggest any?

Answer 1

The term that you are looking for could be one of:

• Paperwork
• Record-keeping
• Procedure (The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.)
• Document management/Content management/Record management

Answer 2

Promulgation or to promulgate is the official and approved distribution of a document or publication.

Answer 3

"Processing of documents" is often used to describe the procedure you have described above.