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Documentation. A common ground for research for the Cultural Heritage sector Niels Windfeld Lund University of Tromsø, Norway. Documentation. A theoretical approach Importance of concepts:

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  1. Documentation A common ground for research for the Cultural Heritage sector Niels Windfeld Lund University of Tromsø, Norway

  2. Documentation • A theoretical approach • Importance of concepts: Our task is not to penetrate into the essence of things, the meaning of which we don't know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature (Niels Bohr 1935)

  3. Diversity of documents • Why Documentation Studies in Tromsø • Act of legal deposit 1989 - all media • Convergency vs. Diversity

  4. What is a document ? • Document = doceo + mentum • Doceo : • - to demonstrate, show • Mentum: • - means • - result

  5. To document • To document is to show ”something” by using some means in some modes resulting in one or more documents • To document you need a producer, means, modes and some results

  6. Knitting documents • A knitting recipe • A knitten hat • A book about knitting traditions • Three different documents produced by different people using different means and made in different modes, but all documentation of knitting

  7. What is documentation ? • Post-document conception - document organisation - archives, libraries, museums • Pre-document conception - document production - documentation is a precondition for communication - you always need means - no immediacy

  8. Modes - traditions of documentation • Document production • Public administration - forms • Literature - novels • Music - libretto • Science - article • Journalism - documentary • Politics - speech

  9. Modes-tradition of documentation • Document organisation • Archives • Libraries • Museums • All are document institutions Having different traditions for organizing documents for different purposes

  10. The digital challenge • Still new kinds of documents • Blurring borders between institutions - new institutions ? • Still new instruments • Still new problems

  11. Experimental research • An instrumental approach • A complementary perspective • Critical studies of traditions • Selection of means • Document labs for document production as well as document organisation

  12. A sample of cases • Telemedicine - EPR • Arts - performance as a document • Research - classification of publications • Trade - Image database of seafood • Software - content/form • Etc.

  13. Documentation Studies • Study programs BA-MA-Ph.D. • Tech.-nat.,social sciences, humanities • Specialties : • document development • Document institution (libraries, (archives), (museums) • Problem based work • Project organised work • Seminars

  14. The Document Academy • A collaborative project between University of Tromsø, Norway and University of California, Berkeley open for scholars, professionals, artists etc. worldwide interested in exploring : • The possibilities for making documents • The potentialities of the concept of document • Annual meeting, DOCAM, at Berkeley • Workshops • Planning Document labs • http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no

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