Documentastion management as a field of study. Concept, structure, methodology, knowledge
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2025-7-3-158-170
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to consider documentation management as a field of study, an attempt to assess the state of modern scientific documentary knowledge, and share my vision of its development. Documentation management originated as a scientific discipline, but today it has already become a full-fledged science, which is a cognitive and social activity that includes the object of activity, the subjects of activity, the means of activity and its result in the form of the product of activity, which is new scientific knowledge. Documentation management studies documents. However, the modern practice of documenting and using documented information requires the inclusion in the object of documentation of such forms of its presentation as records and data. The subject of scientific documentary knowledge is the professional scientific community. The means of documentary research, along with the technical, technological, and software tools, include methodology as a way of substantiating scientific knowledge. In the methodology of documentation management it is advisable to apply, along with the informational approach, the societal and activity-based approaches, which makes it possible to expand the understanding of the document as a social phenomenon. The multidisciplinary nature of the document as an object of research contributes to the creation of knowledge that is not integrated with classical documentation management and is not verified by the practice of documenting a social reality. Therefore, modern interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary knowledge about the document must undergo a certain qualified selection in order to be included in the scientific discipline and the science of documentation management. In general, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity seem promising for the further development of documentary studies.
About the Author
G. A. Dvoenosova
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Galina A. Dvoenosova, Dr. of Sci. (History)
6-6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Dvoenosova G.A. Documentastion management as a field of study. Concept, structure, methodology, knowledge. History and Archives. 2025;7(3):158-170. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2025-7-3-158-170
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