Dear colleagues and friends If you think it is interesting to discuss the characteristics of what you mostly are searching for on the Internet, a useful DOCUMENT, then join the online work on Document Theory, now in a bilingual form , go to http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=190&recalcul=oui, , follow the guide how to contribute to the discussion. It is a initiative taken by the International document research community primarily based on the French RTP-doc community, http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=33, but also more and more document scholars around the world, related to the Document Academy, an international network based on collaboration between Documentation Studies, University of Troms, Norway and SIMS, University of California. http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/docam/index.html French Document Scholars have for 2-3 years now worked on document theory through a collaborative writing process, better known as Monsieur Roger T. Pedauque. The first paper, existing in a French version as well as in a English version, mention three main perspectives, form, sign and medium. The first text focus on form, http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=67 while the second (only in French) focus on sign, on meaning, http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=209 The third one focus on document as medium or document and the medium dimension. The starting text has just been launched in a French and a English version http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/article.php3?id_article=190&recalcul=oui and they are supposed to be discussed and revised during the coming months. At the Summerschool in Tromso in late June/Early July , There are still more seats available at the summerschool http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/sommerskole/indexecole.html, a preliminary status text will be presented and discussed. A more final version of the works by M. Roger will be presented at the DOCAM conference at Berkeley in October 7-9 2005. If you think the document is an important dimension on the Internet, then join the discussion and be a part of the emergent document theory building process best Niels W. Lund professor, Chair of The document Academy, member of Roger T. Pedauque group -- Niels Windfeld Lund, professor, Dokumentasjonsvitenskap - Documentation Studies Institute of Culture and Literature HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø/University of Tromsoe Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway tlf. +47-77646284, fax + 47-77644239 http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/index.html http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ansatte/niels.lund/dokvitnwl/dokkeninde...