Things in their original context are not documents. Pictures of things, and lists of them are ([[Lijst is een creatief artefact 20210507092029]]). Also objects in museum collections (stones, fossils), and animals in a zoo. awesome. Vgl document def in information access regimes.

taking that further, and more abstract: every tangible or symbolical index, conserved or registered, in order to represent, reconstute or prove a physical or intellectual phenomenon.

The formal def at the time of a document, every knowledge carrying material, that can be consulted, studied used as proof.

Three essays:

• a technique for knowledge work
• a distinct profession
• a necessity of our times

The first and last sound promising as title.

Qu'est-ce que la documentation? 2024 edition w notes, of the 1951 original 3 essays. In calibre.

Suzanne Briet, 1894-1989 "Madame Documentation", France.

wrote many essays and books on documentation. Qu'est-ce que la documentation? (English: What is Documentation?), seen as key text in information science.

Suzanne Briet was a librarian, working inside institutions, so how does her thinking play out in pkm, in individual / group learning and knowledge organisation?

Suzanne Briet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Briet wrote some 100 essay, books and more as documentalist. - [ ] look for Suzanne Briet's work (French) #pkm #30mins