Introduction to Documentation Studies.

Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 Documentation Theory -- CHAPTER 1 Setting the Stage -- Introduction -- Documentation -- Communication -- Information -- A renaissance for a documentation perspective -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2 A Complementary Theory of Documentation -- Introduction -- A general theory 'when orders are breaking' -- The world of subsystems -- Human practice -- Orders of documentation, communication, and information -- Doceo + mentum: the documentation process -- The constituting elements of the complementary process -- Documentation - redocumentation -- Three levels of conceiving a document -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3 A Model for a Complementary Documentation Analysis -- Introduction -- Diachronic analysis of documentation -- Synchronic analysis of documents -- A comparative analysis of documentation -- Experimental analysis -- Summary -- PART 2 Documentation in Practice -- CHAPTER 4 Music: A Requiem for Countess von Walsegg, aka Mozart's Requiem -- Introduction -- What is a requiem? -- A requiem for the countess -- Mozart's Requiem: a radical breaking - a new dominant order: classical music -- The 'work': autographs - copies - editions - performances -- Recordings -- 'About' Mozart's Requiem -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5 Literature: 'Indian Camp' - a Short Story by Ernest Hemingway -- Introduction -- 'Indian Camp' emerges as a short story, 1923-5: a diachronic documentation analysis -- 'Indian Camp': a synchronic document analysis -- Documents about 'Indian Camp' and 'Hemingway' -- About 'Hemingway' -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6 Art: The Girls on the Bridge - One Title, Many Works -- Introduction -- A complementary situation in the visual arts world subsystem -- Edvard Munch: a short biography -- The Girls on the Bridge: a complex analysis.

Summary -- CHAPTER 7 Science: 'The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800' - a Doctoral Dissertation -- Introduction -- Science: a subsystem -- Doctor of Philosophy -- 'The Danish Revolution': a doctoral dissertation -- Means and modes -- Document and docemes -- The doctoral defense: an oral document -- 'The Danish Revolution': a part of the historical literature -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8 Politics: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963 -- Introduction -- A complementary situation and a complex of subsystems -- The March on Washington: a diachronic analysis -- Agents -- Means -- Modes -- Docemes of the March on Washington: a synchronic analysis -- The legacy of the March on Washington -- Summary -- CHAPTER 9 Identity Documentation: Name and Number -- Introduction -- Family and nation-state: two of the oldest subsystems -- Personal name giving -- Obtaining a social security card -- Summary -- PART 3 Documentation in Theory and Practice -- CHAPTER 10 Documentation in a Comparative Perspective -- Introduction -- All documents have a border: a discrete entity -- All documents have a history, a name, and are part of a document complex -- All documents have a structure of elements: docemes -- All documents are made by somebody: the role of agents -- All documents are made by some means: the role of the medium -- All documents are made in some mode -- All documents are complementary objects -- Diversity of documents -- In other words: the principle of documentation -- Summary -- CHAPTER 11 A Complementary Discipline of Documentation, Information, and Communication -- Introduction -- Facing realities -- A way forward: a DIC research program -- Do DIC studies have a role to play as a complementary discipline? -- EPILOGUE Society in a Complementary Documentation Perspective -- A complementary world view.

The role of crafts and skills in the 21st century -- The condition of contingency -- References -- Index.

This unique text outlines the main scientific purpose and objective of the science of documentation and also describes the main skills for a documentalist in the 21st century.

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