On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Antoine Isaac wrote: > I'm afraid I have to support all these claims, Richard :-) > I don't remember the precise reference, but I read once that an > antelope becomes a document as soon as it is in a zoo, which makes > quite some sense to me. > Briet (1951, pp. 10-11) Suzanne Briet. Qu’est-ce que la documentation? Éditions documentaires, industrielles et techniques, 1951. The full text of Ronald Day's recent English translation is available via http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~roday/briet.htm . The link to the original French text appears to be broken at this time, but is accessible via the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20061127044828/http://martinetl.free.fr/briet.pdf ) Simon p.s. (I'm being a little loose with the definitions here; one could argue that it requires a conscious act of description before the antelope becomes a document, but that's kind of a given in this context :-)
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