Documentarisation Processes in Documents for Action (DofA): The Status of Annotations and Associated Cooperation Technologies

In this paper, we focus on situations where documents serve to coordinate the work of a distributed collective engaged in common goal-directed activities. After defining the concept of semiotic products as resulting from symbolic communicational transactions, we present some coordination strategies...

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Published inComputer supported cooperative work Vol. 15; no. 2-3; pp. 205 - 228
Main Author Zacklad, Manuel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Nature B.V 01.06.2006
Springer Verlag
Subjects
Annotations
Computer Science
Documents
Humanities and Social Sciences
Library and information sciences
Social and Information Networks
Substrates
Temporal distribution
Web
annotation
Document for Action (DofA)
cooperative writing
documentarisation
newsgroup
document
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Summary:In this paper, we focus on situations where documents serve to coordinate the work of a distributed collective engaged in common goal-directed activities. After defining the concept of semiotic products as resulting from symbolic communicational transactions, we present some coordination strategies which can be used to compensate for the spatio-socio-temporal distribution typical of these transactions. Among these strategies, it is proposed to study in detail the documentarisation strategy, which makes the material substrate mediating the transactions relatively durable and endows it with attributes making its further use possible. In our study of documentarisation processes, several novel concepts are introduced and used to describe Documents for Action (DofA), their characteristics and the conditions that should be respected for correctly annotating them.
ISSN:0925-9724
1573-7551
DOI:10.1007/s10606-006-9019-y