A Document (Re)turn

Contents: Niels W. Lund: Building a Discipline, Creating a Profession: An Essay on the Childhood of «dokvit» - Bernd Frohmann: Multiplicity, Materiality, and Autonomous Agency of Documentation - Johanna Drucker: Excerpts and Entanglements - Anders Ørom: The Concept of Information versus the Concept of Document - Gaute Barlindhaug: Analog Sound in the Age of Digital Tools: The Story of the Failure of Digital Technology - B.I. Olsen/N.W. Lund/J.G. Bellika/E. Årsand/P. Hasvold/G. Ellingsen/A. Horsch/G. Hartvigsen: Documents in Medicine: from Paper Documents to Quality-Healthcare? - Helena Francke: Negotiating Cognitive Authority: The Case of Scholarly Electronic Journals - Roswitha Skare: Text und Paratext und deren Remedierung im Film: Jens Sparschuhs Heimatroman Der Zimmerspringbrunnen - Simon Niedenthal: Documents of Light: Three Case Studies and a Preliminary Model for Organizing Light Knowledge - Maribeth Back/Daniel Billsus/Laurent Denoue/David Hilbert: Designing and Using Complex Document Sharing Spaces: A Research Vision of Next-Generation Conference Rooms - Carol E.B. Choksy: Contracts: Documents Creating Context - Philippe Bootz/Xavier Hautbois: Time Measures in Documents: The model of «Motifs Temporels Paramétrés» - Richard L. Anderson/Brian C. O'Connor/Jodi L. Kearns: The Functional Ontology of Filmic Documents - Vesa Suominen: A Structural Approach to the History of Documentary Contents: Documentation Studies for Librarianship - Evelyne Broudoux : Construction de l'autorité informationnelle sur le web - Manuel Zacklad : Réseaux et communautés d'imaginaire documédiatisées - Andreas Vårheim: Evolving and Devolving Institutions: A Perspective on Norwegian Public Policy towards the IT-industry 1945-2000 - Ronald E. Day: «A Necessity of Our Time»: Suzanne Briet's What is Documentation? - Michael Buckland: Northern Light: Fresh Insights into Enduring Concerns.

The Editors: Roswitha Skare, born in 1967, has a cand.philol. degree from the University of Tromsø, Norway. Between 1995 and 2000 she was a research fellow in German literature. Since 2000 she holds the post of associate professor in Documentation Studies, where she teaches courses in document theory and document history.
Niels Windfeld Lund, born in 1949, has an M.A. in History and Ethnology from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He became the first full professor in Documentation Studies at the Department of Documentation Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway, in 1996. Currently his main research fields are document theory, experimental document analysis, notably in the domains of telemedicine and the Arts, especially the Opera considered as a multimedia document.
Andreas Vårheim, born in 1958, has been an associate professor in the Documentation Studies program at the University of Tromsø, Norway, since 1999. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of Tromsø. Currently the focus of his research is on institutional development and policy development, especially on questions regarding public library policy and social trust.