A document is a written, drawn, presented or memorialized representation of thought. The word comes from the Latin documentum, which denotes a "teaching" or "lesson": the verb doceō denotes "to teach". In the past the word was usually used to denote a useful written test as evidence of a truth or fact. In the computer age, "document" usually denotes a mainly textual computer file, including its structure and format, and. gram. Fonts, colors and images. At the same time, the "document" is not defined by its means of transmission, and. G., Paper, given the existence of electronic documents. "Documentation" is different because it has more denotations than "document". Documents are also distinguished from "realia", which are three-dimensional objects that would otherwise satisfy the definition of "document" because they remember or represent thought; Documents are considered more like two-dimensional representations.
The concept of "document" has been defined [by whom?] As "any concrete or symbolic indication, preserved or recorded, to reconstruct or to prove a phenomenon, either physical or mental."
An often quoted article concludes that "the evolution of the notion of document between Jonathan Priest, Otlet, Briet, Schürmeyer and the other documentalists made more and more emphasis on what worked as a document rather than the traditional physical forms of documents. This even more important distinction. Levy's reflective analyzes have shown that an emphasis on digital document technology has hindered our understanding of digital documents as documents (eg, Levy, 1994). A conventional document, such as a Mail or a technical report, physically exists in digital technology as a string of bits, like everything else in a digital environment, and as object of study, has become a document that has become physical evidence by those who They study it ". The appointment is problematic and must be verified.
"Document" is defined in librarianship and the science of information and science of documentation as a fundamental and abstract idea: the word denotes everything that can be represented or memorialized in order to serve as evidence. Suzanne Briet's classic example is an antelope: "An antelope that runs wild in the plains of Africa should not be considered a document that it governs, but if it were captured, taken to a zoo and made the object of study, it has become a Document that has become a physical evidence used by those who study it, in fact, academic articles written on the antelope are secondary documents, since the antelope itself is the primary document. This view has been interpreted as an early expression of the actor-network theory.