CLASSIFICATION SCHEME AS A REFLECTION OF THE SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE NATURE OF DOCUMENT PHENOMENON

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study methodological approaches to drafting the classification schemes of documents. The methodology consists of general scientific methods and special methods: analysis, synthesis, comparative and logical method, method of visualization of research results. The application of analysis, synthesis, comparative and logical methods allowed to determine the methodological principles of documents’ classification and to carry out a comparative analysis of the leading concepts of documents’ classification, that is accepted in Ukrainian general documentary studies. Main documents’ classifications were compared using the method of visualization by the features of iconic means of fixation and transmitting information, by the features of the medium of information, by the information component, by the circumstances of existence in the external environment. The classification schemes reflect the unity or proximity of the views of Ukrainian scholars on the nature of the document as a social and communication phenomenon, on the classification features and species of documents. Author’s classification schemes have features for determining facets, species diversity of documents, forming in its unity a complete analytical product. The fundamental difference between concepts is to determine the status of the semiotic component of a document.