The new electronic document: from the relational table to the hyperdocument

Abstract

The present work criticizes the current processes of information management, aiming with the objective of arriving to a new notion of electronic document. Some problems of the human language are approached in the frame of information management. The problem of information is examined from the point of view of the structures of knowledge, by analizing of the disfunctions in the current processes of information management. The author proposes a knowledge model nearer to the human mind and its outlines of knowledge, that it is Scire. 2 : 2 (jul.-dic. 1996) 139-151 called “Documentary Hipertext”. A Combined Interfaces of information management also contributes where such aspects are studied as Hardware, Graphic Interfaces and Metaphors of visualization of information. Finally the author indicate that it is taking place too much technological dispersion and an excessively artificial treatment of the information structures; everything could be avoided it by means of the simplification of norms and processes of information management and the creation of integral interfaces that bring near the Information Systems to the User.