January 15, 2014

• New classroom (yay adventure walk)

• Terms from our Reading

• Socrative1: Buckland article

• Lecture: What is a document

• Socrative 2: Other articles

• In class reflection essay

• Assignment: Organizing in the real worldSlides and materials available at: http://sites.duke.edu/holliewhite/2014/01/07/inls-520/

TERMS

Socrative 1: Buckland article

Socrates as portrayed by Tony SteedmanIn Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure(1989)

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.htmlBuckland Reading:

Is this a document?

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp 1917…photo taken by Alfred Stiegliz

Some definitions….

• Buckland – “any phenomena that someone may wish to

observe: events, processes, images, and objects as well as texts.” (Buckland, 1997)

• Otlet– “objects themselves can be regarded as

documents if you are informed by observation of them”, 3 dimensionality (Buckland, 1997)

• Briet – “evidence in support of a fact” (Buckland,

1997)

• Greenberg– “Any entity, form or mode for which contextual

data can be recorded” (Greenberg, 2002, 2003)Slide Created by Dr. Jane Greenberg

Document (Briet)• Object

• Star in the sky

• Photo of star

• Stone in the River

• Stone in museum

• Animal in the wild

• Animal in the zoo

• Document?

• NO

• YES

• No

• Yes

• No

• Yes

Modified from a slide created by Dr. Jane Greenberg

Do we agree with Briet’s classifications?

Simple/Atomic, familiar document types

Complex, compound, dynamic document types

What is a document?

Adapted from: http://www2.cs.cornell.edu/payette/fedora/ecdl98.pptSlide Created by Dr. Jane Greenberg

What is a Document? A Terminology Issue

• Information object–Document–Information resource–Information bearing entity–Bibliographic entity• Exist in the world of recorded

knowledge…

Slide Created by Dr. Jane Greenberg

Information Objects, W3C• W3C/IETF definition of resource is

“…anything that has identity. Familiar examples include an electronic document, an image, a service (e.g., "today's weather report for Los Angeles"), and a collection of other resources. Not all resources are network "retrievable"; e.g., human beings, corporations, and bound books in a library can also be considered resources.”

• i.e. a resource is “anything”• physical things (books, cars, people)• digital things (Web pages, digital images)• conceptual things (colours,

points in time, subjects)

Slide Created by Dr. Jane Greenberg

Information Objects

• Print (Physical) / Digital (Electronic)

• Linear (flat) / Hypertext

• Static / Dynamic

• Durable / Ephemeral

• Atomic / Complex

Slide Created by Dr. Jane Greenberg

What type of documents or information objects can we put in

our information systems?

Let’s make a list:

Socrative 2: Other articles

Miner,  E.  A.,  and  Missen,  C.  (2005).  ‘Internet  in  a  Box’:  Augmenting  Bandwidth  with  the   eGranary  Digital  Library.”  Africa  Today,  52  (2):   21–37.

Qvenild,  M.  (2008).  Svalbard  Global  Seed  Vault:   A  ‘Noah’s  Ark’  for  the  World’s  Seeds.   Development  in  Practice,  18  (1):  110–  116.

In class reflection essay…

The Miner & Missen and Qvenild pieces, discuss two non traditional collections. What type of documents are these collections housing? Brainstorm and describe the types of unique organizing issues that may occur in these situations.

Assignment 1:Organization  in  the  Real

 World

http://sites.duke.edu/holliewhite/files/2014/01/Organization-in-the-real-world.pdf

Readings for Next week

• Jones,  W.  &  Teevan,  J.  (2007).  Introduction.  In  W.   Jones  and  J.  Teevan  (EDs.),  Personal   Information  Management.  London:  University   of  Washington  Press.

•  Kwasnik,  B.  H.  (1989).  How  a  Personal   Document's  Intended  Use  or  Purpose  Affects   Its  Classification  in  an  Office.  In:  Proceedings  of   the  12th  Annual  International  ACM  SIGIR   Conference  on  Research  and  Development  in   Information  Retrieval.  New  York:  ACM,  p.  207-210.