{"id":2622,"date":"2013-10-15T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:40:37","slug":"suzanne-briets-document-antelop-in-celebration-of-ada-lovelace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/archives\/2622","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Briet&#8217;s Document Antelop in Celebration of Ada Lovelace Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>**This is part of the blog bomb that all the librarians at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibTechWomen\">LibTechWomen<\/a> planned and I am excited to participate. : )\u00c2\u00a0 Find more posts celebrating Briet today in Twitter with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23briet\">#briet<\/a>**<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2624\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2624\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2624 \" alt=\"Ada Lovelace from Wikipedia (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ada Lovelace from Wikipedia (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of <a href=\"http:\/\/findingada.com\/about\/\">Ada Lovelace Day<\/a>, I am posting this short blog post on a female librarian, Suzanne Briet, the author of &#8220;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/martinetl.free.fr\/suzannebriet\/questcequeladocumentation\/\">Qu&#8217;est-ce que la documentation<\/a>?<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/ils.indiana.edu\/faculty\/roday\/what%20is%20documentation.pdf \"><i>What is Documentation?<\/i><\/a>). For those who do not know Ada Lovelace, she was &#8216;the world&#8217;s first computer programmer, and the first person to realise that a general purpose computing machine such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2012\/oct\/23\/charles-babbage-analytical-engine-victorian-computer\">Charles Babbage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Analytical Engine<\/a> could do more than just calculate large tables of numbers.&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more about Ada Lovelace in the Guardian news article today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2013\/oct\/15\/nerd-cabaret-wikipedia-ada-lovelace-day-2013\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2013\/oct\/15\/nerd-cabaret-wikipedia-ada-lovelace-day-2013<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Getting back to Briet, in her manifesto published in 1951, she argued that the antelope in the wild is not a document but the antelope in the zoo is. If you ever hear &#8220;<strong>Is the antelope a document or not?,&#8221;<\/strong> now you know that the antelope example comes from Briet&#8217;s manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this idea of the document antelope was often wrongly attributed to Michael Buckland, a professor at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, who actually introduced Briet to many students in library and information science.<\/p>\n<p>About Suzanne Briet&#8217;s manifesto, Michael Buckland wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In her manifesto, &#8220;What is Documentation?&#8221; Briet argued that the scope of Documentation extended beyond text to evidence and she defined &#8220;document&#8221; as any material form of evidence.<br \/>\n(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/people.ischool.berkeley.edu\/~buckland\/briet.html\">http:\/\/people.ischool.berkeley.edu\/~buckland\/briet.html<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Briet, the antelope in the zoo was a document just as much as the stone in the museum or the photo of the star in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzanne_Briet\">The Suzanne Briet page in Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ils.indiana.edu\/faculty\/roday\/what%20is%20documentation.pdf \"><i>What is Documentation?<\/i><\/a> (English Translation)<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/martinetl.free.fr\/suzannebriet\/questcequeladocumentation\/\">Qu&#8217;est-ce que la documentation<\/a>?<\/i> (Original Manifesto)<\/li>\n<li>Ronald E. Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asis.org\/Bulletin\/Dec-06\/day.html\">Suzanne Briet: An Appreciation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danah Boyd, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/suzanne_briet_m.html\">Suzanne Briet: madame documentation and librarian extraordinaire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Ada Lovelace Day, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**This is part of the blog bomb that all the librarians at LibTechWomen planned and I am excited to participate. : )\u00c2\u00a0 Find more posts celebrating Briet today in Twitter with #briet** &nbsp; In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/archives\/2622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,6,10],"tags":[305,297,299,300,296,298,301],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-librarianship","category-lis","category-technology","tag-briet","tag-ada-lovelace","tag-antelope","tag-documentation","tag-libtechwomen","tag-suzanne-briet","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2AlrP-Gi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}