The Nightingale of Keats. Documents, archives, and information objects

Abstract

The paper first analyzes the complexity of the notion of the archival document, in its fundamental definition and its updates prompted by the shift to the digital dimension. It then sets out to consider – from a digital hermeneutic point of view – the notion of ‘document’ from the perspective of the information object and therefore of the intentional object. Finally, the paper discusses the ways in which the archive is a technological enhancement for the interrogability and ‘consultability’ of knowledge.

Keywords

• Archival Records
• Information Object
• Intentionality
• Social Object
• Information Selection.