Discerning Meaning and Producing Information: Semiosis in Knowing the Past

Thibodeau, Kenneth

doi:10.3390/info12090363

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“…What follows in this section summarizes earlier work in CPT while signaling changes that have been made since earlier publications. [1,2].…”

Section: State Of the Art Of Constructed Past Theorymentioning

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“…Misapprehension is a failure to recognize that past meanings are different from or additional to those of the intentional arena. Misconstruction is the imposition of anachronistic or otherwise inappropriate concepts, categories, relationships, or other interpretive norms on things in the past [2].…”

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“…Also, 'form' may be seen as a property of information; however, pragmatics asserts that meaning is determined by the recipient, which entails that the meaning of something may be changed by how the recipient construes it [41]. The recipient's norms for form may differ substantially from that of the author [2].…”

Section: What Does It Mean? How Does It Mean?mentioning

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Dynamic Semiosis: Meaning, Informing, and Conforming in Constructing the Past

Thibodeau

2023

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Constructed Past Theory (CPT) is an abstract representation of how information about the past is produced and interpreted. It is grounded in the assertion that whatever we can write or say about anything in the past is the product of cognition. Understanding how information about the past is produced requires the identification and analysis of both the sources on which that information is based and the way in which the constructor approaches the task to select, analyze, and organize information to achieve the purpose for which the information was sought. CPT models this dual process, providing a basis for evaluation. It is descriptive, not prescriptive. CPT has been articulated using UML class diagrams with the objective of facilitating implementation in automated systems. This article reformulates CPT using type theory and extends its reach by applying and adapting concepts from semiotics. The results are more detailed models that facilitate differentiating what things meant to people in the past from how the constructor understands them. This article concludes with suggestions for applying CPG concepts in constructing information about the past and identifying areas where further research is needed.

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“…What follows in this section summarizes earlier work in CPT while signaling changes that have been made since earlier publications. [1,2].…”

Section: State Of the Art Of Constructed Past Theorymentioning

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Section: Setting the Record Straightmentioning

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Dynamic Semiosis: Meaning, Informing, and Conforming in Constructing the Past

Thibodeau

2023

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“…Another recent development that offers substantial potential for enriching archival theory is Constructed Past Theory (CPT), which, though not discussed here, offers a very generalized conceptualization of what is involved in producing and interpreting information about things in the past [143,144].…”

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A Foundation for Archival Engineering

Thibodeau

2022

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Archives comprise information that individuals and organizations use in their activities. Archival theory is the intellectual framework for organizing, managing, preserving and access to archives both while they serve the needs of those who produce them and later when researchers consult them for other purposes. Archival theory is sometimes called archival science, but it does not constitute a modern science in the sense of a coherent body of knowledge formulated in a way that is appropriate for empirical testing and validation. Both archival theory and practice are seriously challenged by the spread and continuing changes in information technology and its increasing and increasingly diverse use in human activities. This article describes problems with and controversies in archival theory and advocates for a reformulation of concepts to address the digital challenge and to make the field more robust, both by addressing the problems and by enriching its capabilities by adopting concepts from other fields such as taxonomy, semiotics and systemic functional linguistics. The objective of this reformulation is to transform the discipline on the model of modern scientific method in a way that engenders a new discipline of archival engineering that is robust enough to guide the development of automated methods even in the face of continuing and unpredictable change in IT.

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Integral Communication Framework

Rafajac,

Jakupović

2023

Integral Communication and Digital Identity

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Discerning Meaning and Producing Information: Semiosis in Knowing the Past

Cited by 4 publications

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Dynamic Semiosis: Meaning, Informing, and Conforming in Constructing the Past

Dynamic Semiosis: Meaning, Informing, and Conforming in Constructing the Past

A Foundation for Archival Engineering

Integral Communication Framework

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