Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, "documents" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see "documentation (function)." For specfic types of documents, see concepts under "document genres."
Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300026030
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