Laval Hunsucker wrote:
>
> The event yielded other relevant approaches to what a
> document is and does, such as that of Zacklad. See
> http://thedocumentacademy.org/resources/2006/program.html.
>
The Dublin Core Initiative started out talking about "documents",
then moved on briefly to "document-like objects", but today they
carefully avoid the term, and although "resource" has taken its
place, there is no attempt at a definition of "resource".
This is following Einstein's wisdom when he said "Time is what a
clock can measure".
So, might we not as well say "A document (or ressource) is whatever we
want to make identifiable and more easily findable"? And we do
this by ascribing attributes to it ("duration: 12 min") rather
than trying to say what it is.
B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Jan 26 2010 - 08:54:08 EST