A dimensão categórica do documento na ciência da informação

Abstract

Considering an epistemological perspective of analysis, a historical-conceptual study of document in Information Science (IS) was proposed to retrace theoretical aspects based on the subjects of History, Diplomacy and Documentation. For that, we guided ourselves on the presuppositions of the history of concepts which allowed us to study synchronic and diachronic aspects of concept by establishing tradition and innovation as anti-ethical categories of analysis. Finally, we tried to show the categorical character of document in the theoretical frame of IS.