1. Definition of factual information

1.1 Documentary data typology

The documentation differentiates :

• bibliographical data ;

• full-text data ;

• factual data.

• Bibliographic data

Bibliographic data identifies documents of various types (journals, articles, patents, theses, reports, conference proceedings, books, audiovisuals, etc.) whose original publications are scattered throughout the world. To identify the documents of interest to a given subject, the user has :

• cataloguing (title, authors, original publication source reference) ;

• indexing...