Electronic - Versus Paper - Editions of knowledge, current trust and fear: A contribution to the 40th anniversary of the journal "Cellulose Chemistry and Technology", outlined by some glance on the emergence of scientific concepts in cellulose and lignin chemistry
2006
Monties, Bernard
At first, the three current questions on the ‘transmission of knowledge’, what, how and why to transmit, are reviewed recalling the emergence and evolution of the concepts of ‘cellulose’ and ‘lignin’, devised more than one century ago as ‘chemical compounds’ and now currently perceived as ‘bio-polymer-structures’ or ‘macromolecular self-organized systems’. Avoiding any contemporary controversy, it is then suggested that such challenging questions would result from both 1/ the difficulty to explain ‘new’ specific concepts by using ‘old’ generic ‘words’ as illustrated with reference to recent ‘modern’ papers, as well as from 2/ the lack of extended studies of the ‘recent and old literature’, mainly due to the difficulty of extensively explore, in a limited period of time, an ever increasing number of more and more specialized publications in different thematic domains-journals. Finally, some principles and practices of organizing and editing specialized ‘data- and knowledge-bases’ are thus recalled and discussed in relation to the new possibilities, trusts and fears, of 'electronic edition' based on assembling electronic files as 'e-base', according to an original procedure of Documentary Recollection, ‘ReDoc’, very recently adapted at INRA.
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