Caging virtual antelopes: Suzanne Briet's definition of documents in the context of the digital age

Archival Science

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-311

  Tourney, Michele M ^a  

^a National Sporting Library   (United States)

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EID: 22044454685     PISSN: 13890166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10502-004-4038-2     Document Type: Article

References (56)

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2. "Document", Oxford English Dictionary, available online at http://www.oed.com.
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6. Quoted in Michael Buckland, "What is a 'Document'?", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48(9) (September 1997): 807.
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9. Ibid.: 670-671.
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17. Quoted in Michael Buckland, "Information Retrieval of More Than Text", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42(8) (September 1991): 586.
18. Suzanne Briet, Qu'est-ce que la documentation? (Paris: Éditions Documentaires Industrielles et Techniques, 1951): 7. Translation by Ronald E. Day and Laurent Martinet available online at http://www.lisp.wayne.edu/~ai2398/ briet.htm. Although the author can read French, she is nonetheless greatly indebted to Mssrs. Day and Martinet for their translation.
19. I b i d.
20. Briet: 8.
21. Briet: 15. Unfortunately, this chart does not transfer well in the online translation; therefore it would be best to consult the original.
22. David M. Levy, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001): 23.
23. Michael Buckland, "Information as Thing", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42(5) (June 1991): 351-360;
24. "Information Retrieval of More Than Text": 587. The former, while not overwhelmed with analysis of Briet's work, is actually a valuable discussion of various attributes of knowledge, information, and documents.
25. Michael Buckland, "What is a 'Document'?": 806.
26. Briet: 7.
27. Verner Clapp, "What is Documentation? by Suzanne Briet", Library of Congress Information Bulletin, 11(25) (January 28, 1952): 1-2. While Buckland attributes this review to Clapp, the only name that appears is that of Luther H. Evans, the Librarian of Congress. Nevertheless, the review will hereafter be attributed to Clapp.
28. Clapp: 2.
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34. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: 23.
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36. Quoted in Day, The Modern Invention of Information: 30-31.
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40. Cox, "Information Documents": 3.
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50. Briet: 9.
51. Briet: 21, 31. "The dynamic work of the documentalist" ("Le travail dynamique du documentaliste.");
52. "The dynamism of the documentalist" ("Le dynamisme du documentaliste").
53. Briet: 9.
54. According to Buckland, "The Centenary of Madame Documentation'" : 236, Briet wrote the biographies of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mother, as well as a history of the Ardennes region. That she would engage in the humanist arts of biography and history is somewhat ironic, as she obviously favored the sciences over the humanities.
55. Suzanne Briet, Entre Aisne etMeuse ... et au delà (Charleville-Mezières, France: Société de Ecrivains Ardennais, 1976);
56. Buckland, "The Centenary of 'Madame Documentation": 236.