General classification of the document: suggestions for improvement

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to optimise the scheme of the general classification of the document and continue the discussion for the development of the typology of the document. Research methodology is based on the application of a complex of theoretical and empirical methods of general scientific cognition, as well as on special methods, in particular, analysis, synthesis, comparative and logical methods, the method of visualisation of research results, systematic, and informational and communicational approaches when building a general classification of the document. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the article, based on the general classification of the document proposed by famous Ukrainian researcher Professor G. M. Shvetsova-Vodka, the classifications of the leading experts in document studies, and our own scientific investigations, outlines a number of proposals for solving the most important issues of document typology, and presents a detailed classification scheme of the document. Conclusions. The proposed block document classification scheme reflects the latest views of scholars on its nature as a social-communication phenomenon, on the architecture of the block classification scheme and the facets of dividing documents according to the most important feature of their classification, which create a certain block. The research is aimed to develop the general theory of the document, taking into account the classification features inherent in all documents regardless of their purpose. As a result of the conducted research, the characteristics by which the general classification of the document should be carried out, the names and sequence of the blocks, the content of the facets and sub-facets that make up the general multi-faceted classification, and the characteristics of individual types of the document have been specified.

Keywords: document science, document typology, general classification, research directions, features of information recording.