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Documentation
A common ground for research for the Cultural Heritage sector
Niels Windfeld Lund
University of Tromsø, Norway
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Documentation
• A theoretical approach
• Importance of concepts: Our task is not to penetrate into the essence of
things, the meaning of which we don't know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature (Niels Bohr 1935)
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Diversity of documents
• Why Documentation Studies in Tromsø
• Act of legal deposit 1989 - all media
• Convergency vs. Diversity
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What is a document ?
• Document = doceo + mentum
• Doceo :
• - to demonstrate, show
• Mentum:
• - means
• - result
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To document
• To document is to show ”something” by using some means in some modes resulting in one or more documents
• To document you need a producer, means, modes and some results
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Knitting documents
• A knitting recipe
• A knitten hat
• A book about knitting traditions
• Three different documents produced by different people using different means and made in different modes, but all documentation of knitting
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What is documentation ?
• Post-document conception- document organisation - archives, libraries,
museums
• Pre-document conception- document production - documentation is a
precondition for communication - you always need means - no immediacy
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Modes - traditions of documentation
• Document production
• Public administration - forms• Literature - novels• Music - libretto• Science - article • Journalism - documentary
• Politics - speech
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Modes-tradition of documentation
• Document organisation
• Archives
• Libraries
• Museums
• All are document institutions
Having different traditions for organizing documents for different purposes
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The digital challenge
• Still new kinds of documents
• Blurring borders between institutions - new institutions ?
• Still new instruments
• Still new problems
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Experimental research
• An instrumental approach
• A complementary perspective
• Critical studies of traditions
• Selection of means
• Document labs for document production as well as document organisation
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A sample of cases
• Telemedicine - EPR
• Arts - performance as a document
• Research - classification of publications
• Trade - Image database of seafood
• Software - content/form
• Etc.
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Documentation Studies
• Study programs BA-MA-Ph.D.• Tech.-nat.,social sciences, humanities• Specialties : - document development- Document institution (libraries, (archives),
(museums)• Problem based work• Project organised work• Seminars
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The Document Academy
• A collaborative project between University of Tromsø, Norway and University of California, Berkeley open for scholars, professionals, artists etc. worldwide interested in exploring :
• The possibilities for making documents • The potentialities of the concept of document• Annual meeting, DOCAM, at Berkeley• Workshops • Planning Document labs
• http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no