Para una teoría informativa del documento: Extensión y aplicabilidad del concepto

This article provides an exhaustive review of the concept of the document. Beginning with an informative perspective, which understands the document as a manifestation of an act of communication, it establishes the axes that identify the basic functions of fixation and the transmission of messages. The proliferation of a new generation of types of documents makes it necessary to revise the components of the basic axes in order to verify and expand the field of validity and application of the concept,