...Alexander O. Smith; Tyler Youngman Purpose This paper connects memetics – the cultural study of ideas expressed across a plurality of artifacts – to perspectives on documentation. We theorize how memetics and documents share a common interest in accounting for cultural organization. Design...

... transmission, domestic and court-based care, and active engagement in digitization and documentation initiatives. Their access and interpretive authority are shaped by structural, socio-cultural, and technological constraints, yet they actively mediate the circulation and meaning of manuscripts, linking...

...Isto Huvila; Olle Sköld; Dydimus Zengenene; Lisa Andersson Purpose Data-documentation standards offer diverse means to represent processes, an aspect of datasets that generally lack adequate documentation for their reuse. This study aims to generate new knowledge of to what extent data...

... is an interpretive qualitative case study of a long-running newsletter that publishes lived experience narratives, editorial commentary and contextual texts. Data comprise sampled issues, associated internal documents, digital editorial diaries and online co-produced workshops. Reflexive thematic analysis is used...

...Samuel Dodson; Jane Bartley Purpose This paper examines the role of documentation in the development, adoption, and stabilization of the FORTRAN programming language. It investigates how different types of documents collectively shaped FORTRAN as a sociotechnical system, enabling it to become...

...Nayana Kirasur Purpose This paper explores the significance of identity documents (IDs) (paper-based and digital data) in state-citizen interactions from the point of view of rural and marginalized women in India, specifically in the southern state of Karnataka. Citizens obtain, hold on to, carry...

... explores how published requirements for documentation in a sampling of authoritative texts address the challenges of creating, capturing and preserving records of the design, implementation and use of AI tools for accountability and transparency, and how the analytical concept of paradata can help to meet...

...Sascha Donner Purpose The development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced capabilities in AI-powered text generation. The impact of this new technology, which is expected to significantly influence our work and private lives, on document creation is still largely unknown...

..., that scientific experiments are based on bibliographical methods, and to describe the relation of bibliography to information science on the basis of such interpretations. Nonetheless, the book is a serious attempt to consider the field of bibliography and thereby support the focus on documents in information...

...Kirsi Günther; Eeva Ekqvist; Katja Kuusisto Purpose The focus of this article is in documentation in substance abuse inpatient rehabilitation. Our article scrutinizes how workers give accounts of the documentation in the inpatient substance abuse rehabilitation unit and what kind of client...

... rights only Oral history Community Oral history stewardship Documentation Partnership Community archives Everyone has a story to tell. Our stories serve as testimonies not only to the past, but to the present and to the essence of our communities. When individual and community...

...Roy Peled; Gal Yavetz Purpose This study evaluates how publicly available archival documents shaped online discussions about allegations that thousands of children were kidnapped during the 1950s in Israel, known as the Yemenite children’s affair. It examines if access to historical records leads...

...Ronald E. Day Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine Robert Pagès' 1948 conception of “auto-document” as a possible forerunner to the neo-documentalist conception of “documentality” as offered in Bernd Frohmann’s 2012 article “The Documentality of Mme Briet’s Antelope.” Design...

...Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić Purpose The main purpose of the paper is to offer a personal view on the development of documentation/information and documentation (IuD) in Germany, while pointing out the need to further investigate the specific features of its development paths. The methodology is based...

...Niels Windfeld Lund Purpose The purpose of the paper is to analyze how the Neo-documentalist movement, initiated in 1996 by Michael Buckland, Boyd Rayward and Niels Lund, has evolved in its 27 years history, how the choice of documentation as name of the new program in Tromsø has made a difference...

...Ronald E. Day Purpose Michael Buckland's works have spanned theoretical, historical and practice-oriented foci and genre. This article focuses on some of his theoretical-historical works that span over 20 years, which demonstrate a reading and critique of European Documentation in terms of what...

... of putting an end to thorny LIS issues as well as being a documentator extraordinaire. Originality/value It is a personal account, as such cannot be evaluated through the classical norms of empirical research as there is no ground truth. This account shows how chance encounters with fellow scholars can...

...), a particular type of secret police files, before and after the fall of Communism in Romania. These DIPs were often weaponized against citizens perceived to be anti-government. Based on Buckland's (2017) concept of a document as an object with physical, mental and social parts, the study used thematic...

... an initial synthesis of this new document phenomenon and provides considerations for categorizing such photos. Design/methodology/approach To discover the attributes of video game photography, this study utilized an auto-hermeneutic approach with self-interviewing and picture-sorting techniques...

...Pamela J. McKenzie; Elisabeth Davies Purpose This article explores the varied ways that individuals create and use calendars, planners and other cognitive artifacts to document the multiple temporalities that make up their everyday lives. It reveals the hidden documentary time work required...