documenting

A planned process in which a document is created or added to by including the specified input in it.

Bjoern Peters

Recording the current temperature in a laboratory notebook. Writing a journal article. Updating a patient record in a database.

6/11/9: Edited at OBI workshop. We need to be able identify a child form of information artifact which corresponds to something enduring (not brain like). This used to be restricted to physical document or digital entity as the output, but that excludes e.g. an audio cassette tape

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