TOC 38 i Table of Contents Service for (the other) Journal of Documentation T. R. Girill Editor in chief Journal of ComputerDocumentation trg@llnl.gov nformation science and computer documentation are in many ways twins. The volume number (54) for 1998 reveals that the "other" Journal of Documentation (whose most recent five years of con tents are summarized here) has been around for the same half cen tury as modern technical writing. And the etymology of'documentation' reveals the latent conceptual link between that journal and the one you are reading. The Latin 'docere' means "to teach or instruct." It has given rise to 'docent' and 'doctor' as well as to 'document', which hence etymologically means anything written that conveys information or instructions. Even more telling is the decision of the American Documentation Institute (founded in 1937) to rename itself as the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in 1968. As the current ASIS Handbook and Directory (p. 8) explains, this decision reflected the "emergence of information science as an identifiable configuration of disciplines" thirty years ago, just about the time when computer documentation likewise emerged as a different but equally "identifiable configuration of disciplines" with its own name. Although the
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Table of contents service for (the other) Journal of Documentation
Girill, T. R.
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 22 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1998
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