Document, text and medium: concepts, theories and disciplines

Lund, N.

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“…As described by Hjørland (2000, p. 35), it implies an entity of certain and significant stability and duration, something that “… has a history, one or more authors or producers, a connection to other documents, and so on” (c.f. also Windfeld Lund, 2010). These characteristics of documents, such as a book, a calendar, a note sheet, a receipt or a medical prescription, greatly shape the ways we as a social collective and individual users perceive, interact with and recreate information.…”

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Time and temporality in library and information science

Haider

Johansson

Hammarfelt

2021

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PurposeThe article introduces selected theoretical approaches to time and temporality relevant to the field of library and information science, and it briefly introduces the papers gathered in this special issue. A number of issues that could potentially be followed in future research are presented.Design/methodology/approachThe authors review a selection of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of time that originate in or are of particular relevance to library and information science. Four main themes are identified: (1) information as object in temporal perspectives; (2) time and information as tools of power and control; (3) time in society; and (4) experiencing and practicing time.FindingsThe paper advocates a thorough engagement with how time and temporality shape notions of information more broadly. This includes, for example, paying attention to how various dimensions of the late-modern time regime of acceleration feed into the ways in which information is operationalised, how information work is commodified, and how hierarchies of information are established; paying attention to the changing temporal dynamics that networked information systems imply for our understanding of documents or of memory institutions; or how external events such as social and natural crises quickly alter modes, speed, and forms of data production and use, in areas as diverse as information practices, policy, management, representation, and organisation, amongst others.Originality/valueBy foregrounding temporal perspectives in library and information science, the authors advocate dialogue with important perspectives on time that come from other fields. Rather than just including such perspectives in library and information science, however, the authors find that the focus on information and documents that the library and information science field contributes has great potential to advance the understanding of how notions and experiences of time shape late-modern societies and individuals.

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Time and temporality in library and information science

Haider

Johansson

Hammarfelt

2021

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“…Despite the material turn during the 1990s (Roberts, 2017), the core issue in document theory – the competing use of the concept of a document to refer either to physical instantiation or abstract expression – and, one could add on the understanding of the document as a sociocultural construct, is still under discussion. Nevertheless, more and more scholars support the claim “that any and every document has a physical angle and a mental angle and a social angle and the related claim that in considering documents none of these three angles can be completely understood without acknowledging the other two” (Buckland, 2016, p. 5), even if different terms and concepts are used by different scholars (Skare, 2022, p. 32) to examine what Lund calls a complimentary approach (Lund, 2004, 2010).…”

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The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents

Skare

2023

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to show that the neo-documentary – or complimentary – approach in Library and Information Science by no means is conservative, but highly necessary also in today's digitized media landscape. An example from a digitized photo archive is chosen to demonstrate the importance of a complimentary analysis that considers both material aspects as well as social and mental ones.Design/methodology/approachBy taking Jenna Hartel's description of the neo-documentary turn as point of departure, the paper focuses on one case, the portrait of Johannes Abrahamsen Motka taken by Sophus Tromholt in 1883 and discusses different versions of the photograph from glass plate negatives to digitized versions in different contexts and media.FindingsMany of the same paratextual elements can be found in different versions, also the digitized ones, to help the viewer to establish a historical context, but the images exhibited today are nevertheless no longer the same ones taken by Tromholt at the end of the 19th century. Not only have the material properties changed, but also – and probably even more important in most cases – the social and mental aspects. More re-contextualization is needed for today's audiences to recognize and understand a historical photograph taken in a colonial context. Focusing on document's material elements is not novel within the LIS-field, but the so-called neo-documentary turn was also a reaction on political and technological developments during the 1980s and 1990s. The increased focus on understanding a document in a complimentary way has demonstrated its impact during the last decades and is, at the same time, still work in progress.Research limitations/implicationsAs a scholar in the humanities the author can only relate to and therefore analyze what the author can experience and observe on screen level.Originality/valueIn providing a case study, this article illustrates the necessity of employing a complimentary approach when analyzing documents. This also implicates the claim that the neo-documentary turn – or complimentary as it rather should be called – by no means is a conservative one, but a highly necessary one in today's digitized media landscape.

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“…With this concept, this volume are probably the most incoherent and vague as archaeological data is understood rather loosely as anything that can function as an ingredient for archaeological information and knowledge, however, without a capability to directly inform anyone. The understanding of documentation comes close to how the term is used in documentation studies(Lund, 2010). Documentation (as noun) is an outcome of documentation (verb and activity) of something by someone.…”

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Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society

Huvila¹

2018

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Document, text and medium: concepts, theories and disciplines

Cited by 44 publications

References 22 publications

Time and temporality in library and information science

Time and temporality in library and information science

The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents

Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society

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