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document: a standalone construct

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Library and information science

Any object that furnishes information

In documentation and information science a document is anything that furnishes information or serves as evidence, whether or not it is a conventional written text. Paul Otlet's 1934 Traité de documentation built the field of documentation around the document as the unit that records and conveys knowledge, and Suzanne Briet's 1951 Qu'est-ce que la documentation? pushed the idea to its edge, treating a catalogued antelope in a zoo as a document because it is used as evidence; Michael Buckland's 1997 article What is a document? reviewed how far the term can stretch. The emphasis falls on the informing function an object performs, not on the legal form of an authenticated record or on a self-describing record inside a database.[1][2][3]

Unit
One item treated as informative, from a book or report to any evidence-bearing object
Recovery means
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Measured by
Handled by describing, indexing, and cataloguing the item so it can be found and used as information

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References

  1. Otlet, P. (1934). Traité de documentation: Le livre sur le livre. Editiones Mundaneum.
  2. Briet, S. (1951). Qu'est-ce que la documentation? Éditions Documentaires Industrielles et Techniques.
  3. Buckland, M. K. (1997). What is a 'document'? Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(9), 804–809. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199709)48:9<804::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-V

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