Editorial

摘要

The significance and continuing influence of the documentation movement of the early twentieth century has become increasing commented upon in recent years (see e.g. Wright, 2014). A new book by Ronald Day (2014), part of MIT's History and Foundations of Information Science series, continues this trend. It takes an explicitly philosophical perspective, stating an intention to give "a critical epistemic-historical account of the development of the modern documentary tradition and its mode of governmentality in the twentieth century and now in the twenty-first [and] an intellectual history of the modern role of documentary indexing" (pp. ⅸ-ⅹ).