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scope of information ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: organized physical evidence

new digital ="trms">technologies renews old ="trms">questions and also old confusions between medium, message, and meaning

document
ordniary information storage and retrieval ="trms">system='qstn'>?

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> bibliography='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•collecting
="lsts lst1">•preserving
="lsts lst1">•organizing (arranging)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presenting (describing)
="lsts lst1">•selecting (retrieving)
="lsts lst1">•reproducing (copying)
="lsts lst1">•disseminating
="lsts lst1">•
(of documents)

early 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> documentation adopted (in europe) instead of bibliography

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]documentation='lgc'>: a set of ="trms">techniques developed to mange significant (or potentially significant) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: any expression of human thought (beyond ="trms">written texts)
='lgc'>~-> ='strcls'>*novel form of signifying objects='strcls'>*

objects bearing traces of...
='strcls'>*if you are informed by observation of it, you are looking at a document='strcls'>*

document='lgc'>: any ="trms">material basis for extending our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge which is available for study or comparison
='strcls'>*capable of being used for='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*reference='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*study='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">authority='strcls'>*

1951
document='lgc'>: evidence in support of a fact
any physical or ="trms">symbiotic sign, preserved or recorded, intended to re="trms">present, to reconstruct, or to de="trms">monstrate a physical or conceptual ="trms">phenomenon
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> viewed with access to evidence
='lgc'>=/= (concerned with) text

document ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb's text object ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>]

(object)    (document='qstn'>?)
star in the sky    no
photo of star    yes
stone in river    no
stone in museum    yes
="trms">animal in ="trms">wild    no
="trms">animal in ="trms">zoo    yes

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Briet's rules for determining when an object has become a document='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. there is ="trms">materiality
="lstsrd">2. there is intentionality
="lstsrd">3. the objects have to be processed (they have to be made into documents)
="lstsrd">4. there is a ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">position (the object is perceived to be a document)

indexicality='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*the quality of having been placed in an organized, meaningful ="trms">relationship with other evidence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gives an object its documentary status='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- for who and why is this useful='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


="trms">modernist mentality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">scientific management
="lsts lst1">•standardization
="lsts lst1">•bibliographic control
='lgc'>--as='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complementary and ="trms">mutually reinforcing bases for achieving progress

spiritual movement of ="trms">anthroposophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognitive aspects of the medium of the message
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> document='lgc'>: re="trms">pository of an expressed thought ='lgc'>+ spiritual character

1963
document='lgc'>: micro-thought on a flat surface (fit for physical handling, transport across space, and preservation through time)

cultural ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">material culture” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> onject as document
artifacts contribute important evidence in the documentation and ="trms">interpretation of experience

artistic research='lgc'> = ="trms">aesthetic object ='lgc'>+ signifying object

="trms">semiotics
information ="trms">sciences
="ppl">Barthes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> object-as-sign
there is always a meaning which overflows the object's use
text='lgc'>: patterns of ="trms">social ="trms">phenomena not made of words or numerals


='lgc'>[signs have to be treated a something invented='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">social construction of meaning='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> viewer's perception of the significance and evidential مدرکى character of documents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “relevance” is now considered to be ="trms">situational and ascribed by the viewer (in digital)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== the property of being a sign is not a ="trms">natural property ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>***property is given to objects='strcls'>***


Wikipedia='lgc'>: all signifying objects (points to) ='lgc'>~~> forensic ="trms">aesthetic='lgc'>: all evidence='lgc'> = signifying فوری (easy ='lgc'>+ immediate) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">aesthetic object فرار (volatile)

object in evidence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> offer it as evidence by the way it is arranged, indexed, ="trms">presented
its manner ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in arranging ="trms">material so that someone may be able to make use of it as new evidence for some purpose (='lgc'>=/= finding ="trms">material that al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready is in evidence)

what is a digital document='qstn'>?
='lgc'>--Buckland='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becomes more problematic, unless we re="trms">member the path of reasoning underlying the largely forgotten discussions of Otlet's objects and Briet's antelope


='strcls'>**documenting the antelope='strcls'>** ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb
antelope='lgc'>: Ethiopian word for the elusive unicorn

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="ppl">="ppl">Calvert
="trms">technobibliocapital

librarians cannot hope to really change how people seek knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in libraries (they are not ='strcls'>*information awareness office='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~= news ="trms">agency)

will to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--manifest='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in a massive electronic ="trms">data processing project

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]library ="trms">science='lgc'>: a set of practices for producing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in subjects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*producing subjects through knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production='strcls'>*

patron='lgc'>: certain kinds of subjects (='lgc'>=/= citizen), ="trms">consumers with an abiding ="trms">market rationality and an ="trms">interest in individua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list private space

enmeshed in practices of classification, circulation, collection

="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ libraries ='lgc'>+ capital
="lsts lst1">•capital='lgc'>: ="trms">social, political, economic, and other ="trms">relationships crystallized in things, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">books and libraries
="lsts lst1">•biblio='lgc'>: libraries, ="trms">books, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•="trms">techno='lgc'>: ="trms">technologies (both silicon-based and not) that make producing, storing, and reproducing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge possible and efficient

="trms">technology and capital shaping library practices ='lgc'>[and animation of ="trms">animal practices='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emphasize ="trms">animal geography='lgc'>]

(legacy of bibliography and ="trms">book collecting) 1930 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> library practice centered on the development of bibliographic standards emphasizing procedures for identifying and indexing ="trms">authors and tides

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (21st century) democracy of texts, collaboration with autodidacticism and public education, is now giving itself over to the ='strcls'>*circulation of commodities='strcls'>*

='strcls'>**the subjects produced through 21st century librarianship are customers and ="trms">consumers='strcls'>** (who seeks content ='lgc'>=/= knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)

new librarian ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new freedom of information ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> free ="trms">market (in the form of atomized particles of “microcontent” allowing free-floating information to be freely accessed via computers and ="trms">networks, without the censorious mediation of ="trms">embodied librarians)

libraries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">techniques for ordering (='lgc'>~-> discourse of standardization)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (shifting) ways the library has operated alongside the state as a disciplinary ='and'>& ideological ="trms">apparatus
="lsts lst1">•18th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> national library
="lsts lst1">•19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">techniques for ordering, discourse of standardization and order (in the library) ='lgc'>+ searching and retrieval external to the mind of the librarian
="lsts lst1">•19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[emerging understanding of the role of ="trms">literacy in worker self improvement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] public library ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a project of nation, citizenship, democracy, self-betterment, universal education ='lgc'>+ concurrent with a ="trms">serious reconstitution of hierarchies of access to ="trms">books
="lsts lst1">•late 19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paterna="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list financial auspices of Andrew Carnegie (who funded 1689 library buildings) for the explicit objective of the self-education of
workers and immigrants ='lgc'>--purpose='lgc'>='lgc'>--> acculturation and assimilation
="lsts lst1">•Paul Otlet ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universal decimal classification 1899
="lsts lst1">•late 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dreams of intelligent computers and objectivized information ="trms">science ='lgc'>: (from) library school ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> school of information management ="trms">systems
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*schematization efforts='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (20th century) library ="trms">science (continue producing itself) as a cooperative venture of flourishing information ='lgc'>[triumphant rationalism='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•standardization
="lsts lst1">•automation
="lsts lst1">•propagate
="lsts lst1">•expand

(in the name of) democratization ='and'>& civil ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights

library ='lgc'>==contribute='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to the civic sphere='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•providing the information
="lsts lst1">•providing ='strcls'>*behaviors='strcls'>* necessary for appropriate citizenship

library ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> classification ="trms">system (DDC) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> general knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge organization tool

late 20th century neo-liberal rationality ='lgc'>==intensify='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•moral directive for self-betterment (as workers)
="lsts lst1">•reorienting the ="trms">relation of subjects (toward the state and the ="trms">social) as one of ="trms">consumership
='lgc'>+ shift in the de="trms">finition of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

="large lg5" stl="font-size:135%"> ="trms">technobibliocapital ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (new era of) ordering texts ='and'>& subjects

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*appreciative ='lgc'>=/= affirmative='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert, we can be appreciative but not affirmative='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[to be critical =='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****not to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•dismiss X (by thinking of it as) ="trms">composed entirely of domination ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='at'>@="nms">apass, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~= to laud something as a timeless [...]