Gerald Hartung

Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

Frederik Schlupkothen

Using Documents presents an interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of human communication with documents in and after the Gutenberg galaxy. Interdisciplinarity is taken seriously: looking back on existing work, texts on written communication by the philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel and by an interdisciplinary French group of authors under the pseudonym Roger T. Pédauque are taken as a starting point and presented afresh (in part for the first time for an English-speaking audience). A look ahead to the future is attempted in contributions from an--again interdisciplinary--group of cultural scientists and cultural technologists who gathered at the University of Wuppertal in October 2019. Whereas the modeling (including technical modeling) of documents has to date largely been limited to the description of output forms and specific content, the foundations are laid here for including documents' contexts of use in models that are grounded in cultural theory. In this way, a hitherto largely unexplored intersection between media science and media technology is also investigated.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Document Theory

Using Documents

Julia Nantke

The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication mirrors the increasing cooperation that has been taking place between the two disciplines within the scope of the digitalization of the Humanities. It presents the results of an international conference on the concept of annotation that took place at the University of Wuppertal in February 2019. This volume reflects upon different practices and associated concepts of annotation, both historical and contemporary. The publication puts them in relation to each other and attempts to systematize their commonalities and divergences in an interdisciplinary perspective.

Frederik Schlupkothen

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