Volume 11, Issue 2 (2024) Proceedings from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy

This year's Annual Meeting of the Document Academy reflected on the future and past of documents. Documents involve technology, meaning they change with the times. The ancient Latin root of "document" referred to an oral teaching, and centuries later the most common form of document was a piece of paper. Now, with computing widespread, perhaps most documents are digital. What will tomorrow's documents bring, particularly in light of generative AI? What might change, and what might stay the same?

It was an honor to welcome an international group of participants to Philadelphia for this year's DOCAM. This gathering lives on in the selection of papers below, which include works on various aspects of documents and documentation through the lens of future, past and present.

Tim Gorichanaz
2024 DOCAM Chair