A colleague and fellow alumnus of the University of Washington Information School just sent me this video, featuring students and faculty at the iSchool.
I should point out, for non-initiates, the significance of the antelope. This is code for a debate about the nature of documents, introduced during the twentieth century and continuing into the digital age. In 1951, Suzanne Briet (1894-1989) published an article on the nature of documentation, asserting that “A document is evidence in support of a fact.”
According to Briet, an antelope running wild on the African savannah is not a document. But an antelope placed in a zoo and made an object of study is a document, she rules. For more about antelopes as documents, see “What is a “document”? by Michael K. Buckland.
Full disclosure: Antelopes also figured prominently in the class song I wrote for the end-of-term party hosted by my cohort.
