The question "What is a Document" is a complex one. In CEMDC terms it can mean one of several things, viz:

• A General Document - a Communication of some sort like an Email, or Letter or Fax.
• A Technical Document - viz a document which has multiple editions, referred to as Revisions.
• A Transmittal Document - viz a document which covers the transmission of one or more revisions of one or more Technical Documents.
• If a document is construed as being a "set of coherent information", then it can also include such things as:
  • the contemporaneous note of say a telephone conversation,
  • an entry made in a diary,
  • the result of an inspection,
  • an entry in a time sheet describing the work executed,
  • the minutes of a meeting.

The form in which a document exists can be one of two things:

• Paper
• Electronic 

What the "Original" of a document is, is also open to discussion. Particularly when it can readily be changed from one form into another. This is not an exhaustive list of methodologies ....

The Original is either what you finally create and release or despatch, or what you first receive depending on whether it is "Your" document, or someone else's.

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