Renée-Marie-Hélène-Suzanne Briet (/ˈbreɪ/; French pronunciation: [bʁie]; 1 February 1894 in Ardennes France – 1989 in Boulogne France) known as Madame Documentation was a librarian author historian poet and visionary best known for her treatise Qu’est-ce que la documentation? (What is Documentation?) a foundational text in the modern study of information science.
birth date
1894-02-01
birth place
France, Ardennes
death date
1989-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
death place
France, Boulogne-sur-Mer
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
S. R. Ranganathan, Michael Buckland, Jesse Shera, Bruno Latour
influenced by
Eugene Wigner, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Otlet
main interest
Semiotics, Social epistemology, Technology, Science technology and society, Information overload, Information science, Scholarly communication, Library science
notableIdea
Institutionalisation, Philosophy of technology
philosophicalSchool
Post-structuralism, Structuralism, Continental philosophy, Information science
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