Open AccessWriting Documentarity
Author(s) -
Arthur Perret
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings from the document academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-215X
DOI - 10.35492/docam/6/1/10
Subject(s) - documentation , markup language , computer science , world wide web , agency (philosophy) , information retrieval , linguistics , epistemology , xml , programming language , philosophy
European pioneers of documentation have inspired us to adopt a functional approach to documents. This has led to works on documentality, which is related to the agency and use of documents, and now on documentarity. We define documentarity as a “quantifiable quality”: not what is a document, but how something can seem documentary. This requires input from writing theories and the study of markup (architext, scripturation) and a comparison between interfaces and the underlying processes (documentarisation, editorialisation).