| CODE | LIA5002 | ||||||
| TITLE | Documentation Sciences | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Library Information and Archive Sciences | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit explores documentation science by analyzing some of the major concepts and theoretical frameworks of the discipline. Documentation – that is, documents and their associated practices – is a common feature of contemporary society and life. Documentation is, in fact, an essential component of political, economic, legal, cultural, social, religious, institutional, professional, and personal organization. This study-unit illuminates the importance of documentation in order to better recognize and understand their implications for the ways in which we construct, organize, and interact with information, institutions, identities, and individuals. Some of the main topics to be covered in the study-unit include: - Concepts of documentation (what is a document?) and distinctions between “the document” and information - Frameworks for documentation - History of documentation - Documentation and knowledge: academic and bureaucratic - Documentation and agency - Documentation and authorship and audiences - Documentation and collaboration - Documentation and identity - Documentation control, discipline, and order - Documentation experiences: numinous experiences - Oral documentation - Distinctions and similarities between print and digital documentation Study-Unit Aims: - Introduce the discipline of documentation science. - Analyze the major concepts and theoretical frameworks of documentation. - Explain some major case studies of documentation in order to illuminate the complexity and diversity of documents and documentary practices. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Understand the major concepts and theoretical frameworks of documentation. - Formulate new and different theoretical explanations of documentation. - Compare, contrast, and explain the distinctions between documentation and information in both theoretical and practical ways. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Conduct critical research in the documentation sciences and, by extension, the information sciences, for both theoretical and practical settings. - Identify and analyze trends - historical, current, and future - in the emergence, development, adoption, and use of diverse kinds of documentation for both academic and professional endeavours. - Apply concepts and theories on documentation to diverse case studies and situations for both academic and professional purposes. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Readings: - Buckland, Michael. K. (1997), “What is a Document?” School of Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html - Frohmann, Bernd. (2004). Deflating Information: From Science Studies to Documentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. - Levy, David M. (2001), Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age. New York: Arcade Publishing. - Riles, Annelise ed. (2006). Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. - Skare, Rowitha, Niels Windfeld Lund, and Andreas Varheim, eds. (2007) A Document (Re)turn. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH. Supplementary Readings: - Frohmann, Bernd. (2009). “Revisiting ‘what is a document?’” Journal of Documentation 65(2): 291-303. - Frohmann, Bernd (2008). “Documentary Ethics, Ontology, and Politics.” Archival Science 3 (8): 165-180. - Frohmann, Bernd. (2004). “Documentation Redux: Prolegomenon to (Another) Philosophy of Information”. Library Trends 54: 387-407. - Gitelman, Lisa. (2014). Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents. Durham: Duke University Press. - Latham, Kiersten F. (2014). "Experiencing documents". Journal of Documentation 70 (4): 544-561. - Lund, Niels Windfeld. (2010). “Document, text and medium: concepts, theories and disciplines.” Journal of Documentation 66 (5): 734-749. - Lund, Niels Windfeld and Michael Buckland. (2008). “Document, documentation, and the Document Academy: introduction.” Archival Science 8: 161-164. - Turner, Deborah. (2012). “Oral documents in concept and in situ, part I: Grounding an exploration of orality and information behaviour.” Journal of Documentation 68 (6): 852-863. - Turner, Deborah. (2012). “Oral documents in concept and in situ, part II: managerial decrees.” Journal of Documentation 68 (6): 864-881. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Marc Kosciejew |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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