Abstract
In the development of documentation studies at the University of Tromso and the founding of the Document Academy it was asserted that one should view a document as having three complementary and simultaneous aspects: physical, mental, and social. These three document dimensions and relationships between them are discussed. Physicality is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for being a document, there must also be a mental angle, which, in turn, entails a social (cultural) angle. The physical disposition of documents is influenced by social controls. The inability of any one angle to fully characterize a document explains the role of documents in the social construction of reality and why “relevance” in retrieval evaluation can be understood but resists scientific treatment.
Highlights
In the development of the program in Documentation Studies at the University of Tromsø, Norway, in 1996, one of the guiding principles was that “. . . one should view the document from three complementary angles: physical, social, and mental, in combination enabling a complete description
There must be a mental angle for a physical entity to be a considered a document
Since the mental angle is different in kind from the physical and since only the physical aspect can be adequately treated in traditionally scientific methods and so scientific solutions are necessarily incomplete
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