This entry provides an overview about the historical development of theoretical reflections
on documents and formulation of document theories. Starting out with its Latin predecessor …

While science policy promotes data sharing and open data, these are not ends in
themselves. Arguments for data sharing are to reproduce research, to make public assets …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is first to provide a critical conceptual discussion of
different use of the notion of text, especially in the case of expressions including words as …

What does it mean to claim that one record, one archival object, is identical to another?
Questions of identity (or 'sameness') often arise in the fields of digital preservation, imaging …

This article examines what is implied by the term “trusted” in the phrase “trusted digital
repositories.” Digital repositories should be able to preserve electronic materials for periods …

Within information systems, a significant aspect of search and retrieval across information
objects, such as datasets, journal articles, or images, relies on the identity construction of the …

Heterogeneous digital data that has been produced by different communities with varying
practices and assumptions, and that is organized according to different representation …

In digital humanities, within a core semantic scope, the term 'text'occurs ubiquitously, with
both mass and count noun senses. This article sets out to define the relationship between …

This study explores how researchers at a major Midwestern university are managing their
data, as well as the factors that have shaped their practices and those that motivate or inhibit …

60 Handbook on information sciences three characteristics can be merged into one central
phenomenon of modern society: written, true knowledge. During the eighteenth century, an …