What is a document? Rethinking the concept in uneasy times

Schamber, Linda

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199609)47:9<669::aid-asi3>3.0.co;2-q

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“…Such a definition leaves some questions unanswered when applied to documents of the sorts which we have to deal with in current organizations. Schamber (1996), for example, points to questions that arise in the context of the emergent technologies of the late twentieth century: Do linked portions of documents constitute a single document? Does a thread of email messages, or a set of records in a database, constitute a single document?…”

Section: Prior Approaches To Define Documents: a Brief Historical Accmentioning

confidence: 99%

Documents in Knowledge Management Support: A Case Study in a Healthcare Organization

Almeida¹,

Souza²

2012

New Research on Knowledge Management Applications and Lesson Learned

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Section: Prior Approaches To Define Documents: a Brief Historical Accmentioning

confidence: 99%

Documents in Knowledge Management Support: A Case Study in a Healthcare Organization

Almeida¹,

Souza²

2012

New Research on Knowledge Management Applications and Lesson Learned

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“…In the Web, e-documents evolve into ''a unit consisting of dynamic, flexible, non-linear content, represented as a set of linked information items, stored in one or more physical media or networked sites; created and used by one or more individuals in the facilitation of some process or project'' [6].…”

Section: From Paper-based To Electronic Documentsmentioning

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e-Document management in situated interactivity: the WIL approach

Bottoni

Ferri

Grifoni

et al. 2009

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Complex organizations need to manage a large amount of information that their employees produce and use in the form of documents: therefore, information systems are adopted to access these documents in electronic format (e-documents) through Intranet or Internet. These documents are composed, organized and annotated in different ways according to the rules adopted by specific professional communities. Such rules reflect the different and peculiar culture and skills of the communities producing them. The large amount of information available today can be potentially accessed in real time. This has increased the need for syntactic and semantic characterization of documents and for tools that allow their effective access and exploitation on the Net, their easy retrieval and management, their annotation to adapt and personalize them on the base of users' characteristics and diversities. This paper describes the approach adopted for the Web Indexing Language (WIL) system, a system conceived for supporting users interactivity during editing, indexing, and annotating e-documents on the basis of conventions adopted for their production and distribution. In particular, the approach capitalizes on the notion that the document layout reflects the relationships among the different semantic components of the document. The model and the architecture of the WIL system aim at improving e-document indexing, searching, editing and annotating, and at exploiting the description of the logical structure of the document itself to squeeze the information about the document content which are usually grasped by a reader at a glance.

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“…Linda Schamber (1996) characterizes digital documents in the following way: they are easily manipulated, can be linked both internally and externally, they are rapidly transformable, easily accessible, instantly transportable and able to be replicated infinitely. From these characteristics it may be deduced that the first difference between digital and analogue documents lies in the fact that in them there is a dissociation between medium and content.…”

Section: Adc Of Digital/multimedia Documentsmentioning

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Audiovisual and Multimedia Content in the Curriculum for Librarianship Studies at the University of LeÛn in Spain

Bravo¹

2005

IFLA Journal

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Within the framework of its programmes in Librarianship and Information Studies, the University of Leon offers the course ‘Analysis of Document Content’, which has as its aim the treatment of documentary messages with a view to their retrieval. The third module of the course concentrates on representation and retrieval of sound, visual, audiovisual and multimedia materials. Prior to undertaking documentary study of audiovisual materials, the peculiarities of the sound and iconic codes are explained. Students are then introduced to the analysis of audiovisual materials, which mix image and sound, have a time dimension and are not directly decodifiable by the senses. Finally, the specific characteristics of digital materials are covered, one of the chief of these being their multimedia nature, bringing together text, image and sound. The separation between contents and medium leads such materials to be both compound (different codes) and distributed (stored in several files), as well as dynamic (easily modifiable). These characteristics imply new requirements in handling them which are sketched out as a corollary of this subject.

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What is a document? Rethinking the concept in uneasy times

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Documents in Knowledge Management Support: A Case Study in a Healthcare Organization

Documents in Knowledge Management Support: A Case Study in a Healthcare Organization

e-Document management in situated interactivity: the WIL approach

Audiovisual and Multimedia Content in the Curriculum for Librarianship Studies at the University of LeÛn in Spain

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