The problem is partly linguistic and partly epistemological. What we call in Europe "of documents" is a profession born by chance in order to enable the industries or companies, "investigative" to find information and documents for the realization of their goals.
was needed of the work of individuals who know the domain insisted in which the institutional purposes. As a rule, these parties did not depend either still owned by the institutions concerned qualifications adequate - at best, were engineers or chemists or physicists - but they were rich in a very refined and practical knowledge and effective sources are or were like no other.
When it was necessary to give them a professional name, chose Europe, an illustrious tradition, "documents" but the Anglo-Saxons, today, gave no name: that of "information scientist / expert" and then "information manager" or "information / gate keeper" and others, are referred late, resulting in the rise of schools and colleges dedicated to the management of complex information-documentation or, more recently, the needs of knowledge management . The systematization
academic has however created a conceptual blend with similar professions - the librarian, the archivist - in charge of a certain stagnation perspective, understood as the preservation and location information for proactive, rather than the document (see Community of Practice on "The Librarian" 1 / 2009 ).
Aggregation / integration of information profession is going on between them, increasing the feeling of crisis in the documents: a UNESCO project has proposed a single profession in three categories are not well defined, the Bologna Process is taking a ' Unification training for all professionals when it might be advantageous for the specialty documentalistica and coordinate with professional training, a model curriculum based on short courses in journalism and documentation together with those relating to the business application domain.
The fact is that it is not, really, of "science" but the documentation of activities maids or ancillary or complementary to some other science or technology. The information-documentation is like the wheel of a car: without it the car does not move, but is the engine that makes her go ... and the engine - far from the statements of centrality of information - it is not already or not yet information management-documentation.
The crisis is not new. The librarians were experts of ' online when the Internet was not yet, but after, no one remembered them, because the engine lay in computer science and its applications on information (the so-called computer in the proper sense ), to which librarians have contributed so, but does not form part never in the heart of the discipline : users, perfection, not direct makers.
So, computer scientists have made progress on their own, even at the expense of inventing new terms for old concepts documentation: tags, metadata, taxonomy , semantic web ... and allowing end users to find their own needed. But the job of
retriever is not much, to find information and records and, above all, to rework the material found to give a definite answer to the cognitive demands of the "customer."
The future will tell if there is a future ...
documentalist identity as a professional, job security and position in the labor market was discussed on the sidelines of IberSid 2008 (conventions of Otto Facultad de Filosofía y Letras University of Zaragoza); Emilia Currás - consultant and historical information and science, former professor of chemistry and scientific documentation in Germany and Spain - has developed its thinking, summarized and commented on above.
was needed of the work of individuals who know the domain insisted in which the institutional purposes. As a rule, these parties did not depend either still owned by the institutions concerned qualifications adequate - at best, were engineers or chemists or physicists - but they were rich in a very refined and practical knowledge and effective sources are or were like no other.
When it was necessary to give them a professional name, chose Europe, an illustrious tradition, "documents" but the Anglo-Saxons, today, gave no name: that of "information scientist / expert" and then "information manager" or "information / gate keeper" and others, are referred late, resulting in the rise of schools and colleges dedicated to the management of complex information-documentation or, more recently, the needs of knowledge management . The systematization
academic has however created a conceptual blend with similar professions - the librarian, the archivist - in charge of a certain stagnation perspective, understood as the preservation and location information for proactive, rather than the document (see Community of Practice on "The Librarian" 1 / 2009 ).
Aggregation / integration of information profession is going on between them, increasing the feeling of crisis in the documents: a UNESCO project has proposed a single profession in three categories are not well defined, the Bologna Process is taking a ' Unification training for all professionals when it might be advantageous for the specialty documentalistica and coordinate with professional training, a model curriculum based on short courses in journalism and documentation together with those relating to the business application domain.
The fact is that it is not, really, of "science" but the documentation of activities maids or ancillary or complementary to some other science or technology. The information-documentation is like the wheel of a car: without it the car does not move, but is the engine that makes her go ... and the engine - far from the statements of centrality of information - it is not already or not yet information management-documentation.
The crisis is not new. The librarians were experts of ' online when the Internet was not yet, but after, no one remembered them, because the engine lay in computer science and its applications on information (the so-called computer in the proper sense ), to which librarians have contributed so, but does not form part never in the heart of the discipline : users, perfection, not direct makers.
So, computer scientists have made progress on their own, even at the expense of inventing new terms for old concepts documentation: tags, metadata, taxonomy , semantic web ... and allowing end users to find their own needed. But the job of
retriever is not much, to find information and records and, above all, to rework the material found to give a definite answer to the cognitive demands of the "customer."
The future will tell if there is a future ...
documentalist identity as a professional, job security and position in the labor market was discussed on the sidelines of IberSid 2008 (conventions of Otto Facultad de Filosofía y Letras University of Zaragoza); Emilia Currás - consultant and historical information and science, former professor of chemistry and scientific documentation in Germany and Spain - has developed its thinking, summarized and commented on above.
- Francisco Javier García-Marco (ed.), Ibersid 2008. Avances y Perspectivas de sistemas de información y documentación , Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2008, ISBN 9788492521258
- Currás Emilia, El crisis en retriever, 2008, new edition on "El profesional de la información", 2009, julio-August , v. 18, No 4, p. 421-423, DOI: 10.3145/epi.2009.jul.09
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