2. What is a digital document?
Does the term "digital document" make sense?
It may seem totally incongruous to ask this question in a book such as this, and even more so in its "Digital Document" section. The very fact that the section exists at all naturally implies that the object it deals with does exist, and that it is a very special object in the IT sphere. Or, as an unconsidered hypothesis, that the very serious Techniques de l'Ingénieur editions are mistaken and are dealing with a "false" question in the sense that it doesn't exist.
To address these objections, it is imperative not to turn to some definition, but to define this concept and, more precisely, what exactly lies behind the expression "digital document". To this end, we have adopted a descriptive approach based on examples. These illustrate the use of digital techniques to create and produce documents....
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Framework of standards and recommendations
The table at 1 does not claim to provide an exhaustive overview of standards dealing with documents in digital form. Some standards, such as XML/SGML, can be implemented across all functional stages. Similarly, some standards may be common to several...
References
- (1) - McKENZIE (D.F.) - La bibliographie et la sociologie des textes. - Éditions du Cercle de la Librairie (1991).
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Article 1316-1
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Electronic documents are admissible as evidence in the same way as paper documents, provided that the person from whom they originate can be duly identified and that they are drawn up and stored in conditions that guarantee their integrity.
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