document

In de discussie over de definitie van het begrip ‘document’ dient de informatie-inhoud van het document centraal te staan, niet de drager of de uiterlijke verschijningsvorm.

Documentair in de context van documentaire informatievoorziening (DIV)  is zoals ook het woord document afgeleid van het werkwoord documenteren, dit is het vastleggen van informatie voor gebruik en hergebruik.

I've spent some time convincing our management that it shouldn't think of what we're managing as 'records' or 'documents' or even 'content', but instead think of them as 'information assets'. It's easier to support the concept of funding the management of ASSETS than of RECORDS. And the reason they are retained isn't JUST because we are required to, but because the information they contain is an asset to our business.

Document of geheel van documenten waarin geheel of gedeeltelijk informatie over handelingen, personen, objecten of gebeurtenissen of combinaties daarvan in een bepaalde gestructureerde vorm ten behoeve van vooraf gedefinieerd gebruik wordt verwerkt.

A file is not a document in its own right, it merely describes a document that comes into existence when the file is interpreted by the program that produced it. Without this program (or equivalent software), the document is a cryptic hostage of its own encoding.

A document is a snapshot of some set of information that can

• incorporate many complex information types
• exist in multiple places accross a network
• depend on other documents for information
• change on the fly (as subordinate documents are updated)
• have a intricate structure, or complex data types such as full motion video and voice annotations
• be accessed and modified by many people simultaneously (if they have permission to do so)