Documentarity
History and Foundations of Information Science
Edited by Michael Buckland, Jonathan Furner, and Markus Krajewski
Human Information Retrieval by Julian Warner
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia by Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.
Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929 by Markus Krajewski, translated
by Peter Krapp
Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss by Colin B.
Burke
Indexing it All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data by Ronald
E. Day
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Yves Gingras
Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience by Sachi Arafat
and Elham Ashoori
The Information Manifold: A New Perspective on Algorithmic Bias, Fake News, and the
False Hope That Computers Can Solve These Problems by Antonio Badia
Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription by Ronald E. Day
Documentarity
Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription
Ronald E. Day
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
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ISBN: 978-0-262-04320-5
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