Doctoral Seminar on Information as Evidence

This course examines the role, creation, interpretation and use, management, and preservation of information objects as social and cultural texts and artifacts. These information objects include published and primary sources such as rare books, research data, field notes, personal papers, organizational records, manuscript texts, visual media, 3-dimensional objects, emerging online information texts, as well as non-tangible texts such as those created in oral traditions.  The focus of the course is primarily on the evidential nature and context of information objects, rather than on their information content.