[Asis-l] Document about documents

[Jean-Michel Salaün]

Document: Form, Sign and Medium, As Reformulated for Electronic Documents.
Roger T. Pédauque. Article. 12 septembre 2003. Working paper.
http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/00/05/94/index_fr.html
This paper presents group discussions taking place within multidisciplinary 
topical network 33 of the CNRS Information and Communication Science and 
Technology (STIC) Department 
(http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/English_version/entry.htm). It attempts to 
clarify the concept of document in its transtion to electronic form, based 
on research which tends to privilege form (as a material or immaterial 
object), sign (as meaningful object) or medium (as communication vector). 
Each of these terms reflects the radical transformations that are taking 
place. Their superposition stresses the importance of multidisciplinarity 
for a lucid and complete analysis of the concept and how it is changing.
This paper is the third version of a working paper. It was a collective 
work. Around fifty French researchers contributed to the text. A 
mailing-list has been dedicated to the debate which is still going on. You 
can propose your own argument by sending an e-mail to pedauque at enssib.fr. 
Only scientific contribution will be take into account.