Document representation

Document representation

By a document representation is usually meant a bibliographic record, which represents a document.

Sometimes this term is used in a narrower meaning about subject representation (as opposed to document description).

In a full text environment (including full-text Internet documents) a representation of the document may be identical with the document which is being represented (or it may include the document by adding metadata). It is an important theoretical question in information science whether or not a document is optimal representation of itself or whether indexing or other kinds of metadata provided by information professionals can improve the findability of documents.

Literature:

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