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documents is also responsible for the effect that the document formats,
storage media, and computing environment have on the ability to present
the document to a user in a useful manner.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. Where are all the problems of managing papers found?
2. What problems are unique to the digital environment?
3. Name two parallel systems of managing documents in organization.
4. What is your personal definition of the term ‘document’?
5. What elements document must include?
6. How document becomes a book?
7. What does the retention schedule list?
8. What does the term ‘digital document’ mean?
9. What responsibilities of a record management do you know?
10. Summarize the text.
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UNDERSTANDING DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTATION
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By David Bawden
Given the title of this journal, it will be clear that most of its
contents will be “about” documentation. In turn this implies that they
will be about documents.
One of the articles in this issue deals with the evolution of
documents, and hence, necessarily, with their explicit nature. This,
however, is the exception rather than the rule. It is something of a
paradox that information specialists whether they choose to call
themselves information scientists, librarians, or even knowledge
managers spend little time debating the nature of the information and
knowledge with which they deal, and disagree when they do so debate
(see, for example, a href="#idbib1">Bawden (2001) and Kaye (1995)).
It is a little strange to find that there is still dispute, and lack of
consideration, about the nature of these fundamental ideas: perhaps as
strange as finding a doctor who no idea what a “disease” or a
“treatment” was, or an engineer who had no idea what was meant by
“materials” or “design”. That is not to say that there need be a perfect
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