Books and bytes: Preserving documents for posterity

Poul Steen Larsen

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999, vol. 50, issue 11, 1020-1027

Abstract: Information retrieval used to depend on the existence of “documents,” traditionally defined in library and information work as combinations of an information content and a supporting physical carrier. This article describes some of the problems in documentation work rising from the habit of detaching information from any physical support, as a prevailing notion in an electric environment. It points to the necessity of regarding information as something closely connected with preservation, and concludes by suggesting a clearer distinction in information science between “information” and “communication.”

Date: 1999
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