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The document discusses the definition and evolution of the term "document". It states that a document is a recorded representation of thought that can be fictional or non-fictional in nature. In the past, a document provided written evidence of facts, but now it also includes digital computer files including text, fonts, images and structure. A document is defined as any indication that can reconstruct or prove a phenomenon, regardless of whether it is physical or mental. The definition of a document has increasingly emphasized its function over physical form, especially with digital documents.

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The document discusses the definition and evolution of the term "document". It states that a document is a recorded representation of thought that can be fictional or non-fictional in nature. In the past, a document provided written evidence of facts, but now it also includes digital computer files including text, fonts, images and structure. A document is defined as any indication that can reconstruct or prove a phenomenon, regardless of whether it is physical or mental. The definition of a document has increasingly emphasized its function over physical form, especially with digital documents.

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ocument is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the

manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates 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 written proof useful as evidence of a truth or fact.
In the Computer Age, "document" usually denotes a primarily textual computer file, including its
structure and format, e.g. fonts, colors, and images. Contemporarily, "document" is not defined by
its transmission medium, e.g., paper, given the existence of electronic documents.
"Documentation" is distinct 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 memorialize or represent thought; documents are
considered more as two-dimensional representations. While documents can have large varieties
of customization, all documents can be shared freely and have the right to do so, creativity can
be represented by documents, also. History, events, examples, opinions, etc. all can be
expressed in documents.

Abstract definitions[edit]
The concept of "document" has been defined by Suzanne Briet as "any concrete or symbolic
indication, preserved or recorded, for reconstructing or for proving a phenomenon, whether
physical or mental."[1]

An often-cited article concludes that "the evolving notion of document" among Jonathan
Priest, Paul Otlet, Briet, Walter Schürmeyer, and the other documentalists increasingly
emphasized whatever functioned as a document rather than traditional physical forms of
documents. The shift to digital technology would seem to make this distinction even more
important. David M. Levy has said that an emphasis on the technology of digital documents has
impeded our understanding of digital documents as documents.[2] A conventional document, such
as a mail message or a technical report, exists physically in digital technology as a string of bits,
as does everything else in a digital environment. As an object of study, it has been made into a
document. It has become physical evidence by those who study it.

"Document" is defined in library and information science and documentation science as a


fundamental, abstract idea: the word denotes everything that may be represented or
memorialized to serve as evidence. The classic example provided by Briet is an antelope: "An
antelope running wild on the plains of Africa should not be considered a document[;] she rules.
But if it were to be captured, taken to a zoo and made an object of study, it has been made into a
document. It has become physical evidence being used by those who study it. Indeed, scholarly
articles written about the antelope are secondary documents

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