Documentation science
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Authors[edit]
Paul Otlet, Henri La Fontaine, S. R. Ranganathan, Suzanne Briet
Works[edit]
- Paul Otlet, Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique, Brussels: Palais Mondial, 1934, 431 pp. (French)
- Paul Otlet, Monde. Essai d'Universalisme: Connaissance du Monde, Sentiments du Monde, Action organisée et Plan du Monde, Brussels: D. Van Keerberghen et Fils, 1935, 467 pp. (French)
- Suzanne Briet, Qu'est-ce que la documentation?, Paris: EDIT, 1951, 48 pp; with notes by Ron Day and Laurent Martinet, 2008, HTML. (French)
- What is Documentation? English Translation of the Classic French Text, trans. & eds. Ronald E. Day, Laurent Martinet and Hermina G. B. Anghelescu, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Pr., 2006, 84 pp. [1]
- Paul Otlet, International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, trans, ed. & intro. W. Boyd Rayward, Elsevier, 1990, 256 pp.
Literature[edit]
Monographs[edit]
- W. Boyd Rayward, The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization, 1975.
- Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, SIU Press, 2001, 152 pp.
- Markus Krajewski, ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek, Berlin: Kadmos, 2002. (German)
- Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929, trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp.
- Ronald E. Day, Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data, MIT Press, 2014. Reviews: Maceviciute (2015), Bawden (2015).
Proceedings and journal issues[edit]
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48(4) & 48(9): "History of Documentation and Information Science", pts I & II, eds. Donald H. Kraft, Michael Buckland and Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Apr 1997 & Sep 1997. [2], [3], Day on Otlet
- Information Processing and Management 32(1): "History of Information Science", ed. W. Boyd Rayward, Jan 1996. [4]
- Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Michael Buckland (eds.), Historical Studies in Information Science, American Society for Information Science, 1998, 326 pp. Reprints the papers from the special history issues of Information Processing and Management (1996) and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (Apr & Sep 1997), as well W. B. Rayward's "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext". Some authors have added new postscripts. New material on the literature on the history of Information Science and pioneers has been added. [5] [6]
- W. Boyd Rayward (ed.), European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past, London: Ashgate, 2008, 343 pp. Based on the conference held 2005. [7] [8]. Reviews: Burke (2009), Weller (2009), Smith (2009), Freeman (2010), Jones (2015).
- W. Boyd Rayward (ed.), Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque, Ashgate, 2014, 300 pp. Based on the colloquium Transcending Boundaries in the Period of the Belle Époque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks and Effecting Social Change, Mons, Belgium, May 2010. [9] [10] [11] Review: Maceviciute (2014), Straw (2016).
- The Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy 1(1), eds. Kiersten F. Latham and Niels Windfeld Lund, 2014.
- The Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy 2(1): "Documents Unbounded", eds. Paul Scifleet, Maureen Henninger, and Mary Anne Kennan, 2015.
- Proceedings from the Document Academy 3(1): "Neo-documentation Around the World: Global Developments", eds. Roswitha Skare and Kiersten F. Latham, 2016.
Book chapters, papers[edit]
- G. Woledge, "Historical Studies in Documentation: 'Bibliography' and 'Documentation': Words and Ideas", Journal of Documentation 39:4 (1983), pp 266-279.
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Some Schemes for Restructuring and Mobilising Information in Documents: A Historical Perspective", Information Processing & Management 30:2 (1994), pp 163-175.
- Michael K. Buckland, "Information as Thing", Journal of the American Society of Information Science 42:5 (Jun 1991), pp 351-360. Preprint.
- Michael K. Buckland, "What is a 'Document'?", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48:9 (Sep 1997), pp 804-809. Preprint.
- Helena Francke, "What's in a Name? Contextualizing the Document Concept", Literary and Linguistic Computing 20:1 (2005), pp 61-69.
- Niels Windfeld Lund, Michael Buckland, "Document, Documentation, and the Document Academy: Introduction", Archival Science 8 (2008), pp 161-164.
- Niels Windfeld Lund, "Document Theory", Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 43:1 (2009), pp 1-55.
- Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, "The French Conception of Information Science: une exception française?", Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 63:9 (2012), pp 1693-1709.
- W. Boyd Rayward, "Information Revolutions, the Information Society, and the Future of the History of Information Science", Library Trends 62:3 (Winter 2014), pp 681-713.
Resources[edit]
- History of Information Management by Michael Buckland