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PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to analyze how the Neo-documentalist movement, initiated in 1996 by Michael Buckland, Boyd Rayward and Niels Lund, has evolved in its 27 years history, how the choice of documentation as name of the new program in Tromsø has made a difference in the LIS field and how different documentation scholars around the world has participated and approached the movement until now.Design/methodology/approachThe paper has approached the “Neo-documentalist movement” in a historical perspective from 1996 to 2023 discussing what difference does the choice of a concept make, when the concept of documentation is chosen instead of information in the name of a program and for the general discussion of the object of an academic field like Library and Information Science.FindingsThe analysis shows that it did make a difference to choose the concept of documentation as name of the program in Tromsø and the Neo-documentalist movement contributed to a new focus and discussion of the informative objects, the documents and their creation, not only in Tromsø, but in different parts of the world across linguistic borders.Originality/valueThe paper is original by the fact that it is the first time that the neo documentalist movement has been reviewed on a global scale across linguistic barriers. It has value by a discussion of the ways in which a choice of concept matter in relation to defining a field and the research agenda.

One of the most frequently encountered representations of West Papuan people internationally today is a photographic or video image of a Korowai or Kombai treehouse (Figure 1). Circulation of these images first exploded in the mid-1990s. In 1994, an Arts & Entertainment Channel film about Korowai was broadcast in the United States under the title Treehouse People: Cannibal Justice, and in 1996 National Geographic published a photo essay titled “Irian Jaya's People of the Trees.” Korowai and Kombai treehouses have since been depicted in dozens of magazine and newspaper articles and twenty television productions, made by media professionals from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Vietnam, and recently West Papua itself. Some representations have had mass global distribution through programming partnerships and satellite transmission agreements, and international editions of major magazines. Recently, several reality television programs have been produced about white travelers' stays in treehouses with Korowai or Kombai hosts. These include an episode of Tribe broadcast on BBC and Discovery in 2005, the six episodes of Living with the Kombai Tribe shown on Travel Channel and Discovery International in 2007, and an episode of Rendez-Vous En Terre Inconnue televised to much acclaim on France 2 in 2009. Treehouses were widely seen by Australian audiences in 2006 in the Sixty Minutes segment “The Last Cannibals,” and during a subsequent media firestorm that surrounded a rival show's unsuccessful effort to film their anchor accompanying a supposedly endangered Korowai orphan boy to a safer life in town. In 2009, a BBC film crew filmed Korowai house construction for the forthcoming blockbuster series Human Planet, and in 2010 National Geographic began researching a possible second story on Korowai treehouses. In late June and early July 2010, photos of Korowai treehouses were published by newspapers in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Paraguay, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Finland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and other countries, to illustrate stories reporting the Indonesian census bureau's announcement that it had counted Korowai thoroughly for the first time (e.g., Andrade 2010; most stories drew their content from Agence France-Presse). In August 2010, production began for a feature-length Indonesian film about physical and romantic travails of Javanese protagonists who sojourn with Korowai in their jungle home; no filming is being carried out in the Korowai area or with Korowai actors, but treehouses figure prominently in the film's early written and visual publicity.

When documenting human tragedy, photojournalists frequently face ethical dilemmas in choosing between acting as dispassionate observers and “Good Samaritans.” This study asked whether readers adopt a situational ethics rationale when they assess the photojournalist's decision to make a photograph of a person suffering severe trauma. Using a mixed experimental research design, the study presented a news situation, i.e., a photograph in which a woman was on fire, in differing versions. Results based on the responses of seventy-two readers clearly showed that readers adopted a situational ethics rationale.

El objetivo de este estudio es profundizar en las causas de la disminución en la demanda de formación especializada en Información y Documentación a pesar del papel cada vez más destacado que posee la información y la documentación en el mercado laboral. se recopiló una muestra de ofertas de trabajo públicas y privadas anunciadas durante 2012 y 2013 a nivel estatal, analizando la formación exigida y las tareas o competencias profesionales asociadas a las denominaciones más demandadas. se concluye que la formación en Biblioteconomia y Documentación es demandada cuando el puesto de trabajo está vinculado al tratamiento y gestión de documentos, mientras que nuestras titulaciones no se consideran apropiadas cuando el trabajo está relacionado con la gestión de información y con las tecnologías, ámbito laboral cada vez más relevante para nuestros egresados.

The study of the ugu-mu list is beneficial not only for the reconstruction of the literary history of lexical lists but also for revealing the Mesopotamian understanding of the human body and its physiognomy. Here, Cohen investigates how this piece of Mesopotamian scholarly lore was received in the Hittite capital. He also examines how Hittite knowledge of a different field was incorporated in a lexical composition: a phrase taken either directly from a Hittite translation of medical omens, or composed on the basis of awareness of this corpus in Hattusa, was put into use in order to clarify an Akkadian entry in the ugu-mu lexical list. This confronts people with the ability of the scribes at Hattusa to synthesize knowledge learned from different sources, and, from this observation, people newly appreciate that schooling in the Mesopotamian stream of tradition wasn't preserved in a sterile environment, but was rather the product of intellectual activities of foreign teachers from Mesopotamia together with the local scribes and practitioners.

This article considers the 'Trelew Massacre' of August 1972 in Chubút, Argentina, through the primary prism of Tomás Eloy Martínez's journalistic account, La pasión según Trelew, first issued in 1973 and again, in a much expanded second edition, in 2009. The substantive experience of 1972 is assessed in terms of Martínez's construction of La pasión and the events of the 'Dirty War' (known as El Proceso by its authors) opened by the coup of March 1976. Martínez's impressive work of documentary reportage is also reconsidered in comparison with that of Rodolfo Walsh and, at deeper historical remove, that of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, as well as in the context of Hannah Arendt's notion of 'the banality of evil' and a putative national history of 'bloodletting' in Argentina.

Las tecnologías obligan a actualizar las competencias profesionales. Este estudio analiza estos cambios, tratando de aportar pautas para la mejora curricular. En este trabajo hemos realizado un análisis sobre los términos utilizados en 20 curricula de profesionales de la información y documentación para identificar sus competencias tecnológicas. Esas habilidades tecnológicas y esos términos han sido utilizados para examinar 735 ofertas de trabajo publicadas en portales generalistas y para 170 ofertas específicas. De este análisis hemos identificado los conocimientos y competencias que deben favorecer la inserción laboral de estos profesionales. Estos están relacionados principalmente con el marketing, la gestión y el software para publicación web. Los resultados confirman la tendencia positiva en la demanda laboral de las competencias tecnológicas atribuibles a los profesionales de la documentación. No obstante es necesario reclamar el reconocimiento de la profesión pues muchas de esas ofertas están clasificadas en otras especialidades. Asimismo aportamos una lista de conocimientos tecnológicos clave para los profesionales de la información y la documentación. La informática y la Web sin duda les proporcionan nuevas oportunidades.