Historic Development of the Document and its Conception
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Different documents make an integral part of our life; we have access to different kinds of documents since the day we are born. Documents are an inseparable part of our activity; they are unavoidable in many fields, such as the process of administration, science, culture and development of economy. Besides, documents are also the keeper of corporate knowledge and the repository of corporate history. Despite the fact that people use documents everywhere, the very definition of a document is troublesome. Different people have different understanding of a document.
Theoretical issues of document science, as well as conception of a document, have not been analysed in Lithuania. So far our experts failed to establish a normative definition of a document. One of the aims of this article is to work out such a definition.
The article aims at analysing the document, contents, medium, form along with their development, i.e. document’s dependence upon historically determined needs of society, emerging new types of medium and the ways of their usage, impact of new technologies upon the development of documents. The article analyses the conception of a document and development of its perception reflected in encyclopaedias, dictionaries and other sources. The author compares historic documents that record development of a document and makes relevant conclusions in accordance with our modern understanding of a document.
The author provides a new definition of the document so far it has not been used in Lithuanian historiography. A document is valuable factual information or information produced as a result of human reasoning, recorded in medium with adequate properties that can be identified, used and stored for unlimited periods.
The author hopes the definition will be accepted in different branches of science, as it reflects the objectives intended to a document as a source of history and science.
Theoretical issues of document science, as well as conception of a document, have not been analysed in Lithuania. So far our experts failed to establish a normative definition of a document. One of the aims of this article is to work out such a definition.
The article aims at analysing the document, contents, medium, form along with their development, i.e. document’s dependence upon historically determined needs of society, emerging new types of medium and the ways of their usage, impact of new technologies upon the development of documents. The article analyses the conception of a document and development of its perception reflected in encyclopaedias, dictionaries and other sources. The author compares historic documents that record development of a document and makes relevant conclusions in accordance with our modern understanding of a document.
The author provides a new definition of the document so far it has not been used in Lithuanian historiography. A document is valuable factual information or information produced as a result of human reasoning, recorded in medium with adequate properties that can be identified, used and stored for unlimited periods.
The author hopes the definition will be accepted in different branches of science, as it reflects the objectives intended to a document as a source of history and science.
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