Abstract:
The purpose of the article is to clarify the specific features of documentary information resources
determine the theoretical foundations of the process of their classification, development of classification
models based on documentary and source methodology. Research methodology. Methods of historical document science, source studies, archival science were applied, which allowed establishing the attribute of
the documentary information resource and its classification within the limits of document science theory. The
scientific novelty of the work is to establish the specific features of documentary information resources, identify
information characteristics, disclose internal and external features of documents, their further classification as
a documentary source of information stored in archives, museums, and libraries. Conclusions. The study made
it possible to generalize the theoretical knowledge of historical records management and source study about the
specific features of the documentary-information resource and the process of their subsequent classification.
Systematization and classification of documentary and information resources expand the possibilities
of studying the theoretical foundations of a document, allows you to create a holistic comprehensive
vision of the external and internal features of a document as an information resource and a means
of communication from the point of view of theoretical and thematic-applied problems. Historical
records management, archival studies, and source studies provide for the use of interdisciplinary
methodological foundations of scientific research of documentary and information resources. The
process of classifying documentary and informational resources of a specific problem-historical study
includes the fact that they are an organic component of the informational past of Ukraine.
