A Documentologic Approach of Herbarium: Documentary Anabiosis and Philogenetic Classification

Viviane Couzinet

doi:10.35492/docam/2/1/16

Abstract

The Francophone school of the document specify the important role of the user to qualified an object as document. Following the work of Paul Otlet and Suzanne Briet, Jean Meyriat have proposed a division between document by intention and document by attribution. These research are part of the development of the document science called Documentology. In this line and taking model on Botany the research presented here examines the herbaria as textual, iconic and physical documents in an evolutionary perspective. It defines the document dormancy as a latent state and documentary anabiosis as activation of objects that become documents. Botany model is fruitful for the Documentology progress. It invites us to develop a documentologic approach of sciences.

Highlights

Documentology was defined as the science of documents by Paul Otlet (1934) in his Traité de documentation: Le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique1 and was later taken up by Jean Meyriat (1981/2001) in the article “Document, documentation, documentologie,” originally published in the journal Schéma et Schématisation
This paper presents the thread of my research since 2013, in which I have been exploring how the phylogenetic classification system used in botany can serve as a general model for classifying documents
As Otlet was primarily interested in how books were dealt with in libraries, he gave another dimension to his words by implicitly defining bibliology/documentology as book/documentation science

Summary

A Documentologic Approach of Herbarium

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Introduction

This title would be rendered in English as Treatise on Documentation

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