Documents can be classified in different ways. One of them is the typology according to the ownership of the social actor that produces the documents. Here we find the documents:
- Personal: letters, diaries, autobiographies, home videos, photos and albums.
- Institutional: public and semi-public
- Public: Censuses, statistics, judicial archives, etc.
- Semi-public: company balance sheets, minutes, annual reports, financial reports, etc.
- Documents of social organisations and social movements: universities, NGOs, trade unions, platforms.
- From the media: newspapers, advertisements, radio programmes, TV, posters, magazines, etc.
Documents can also be categorised by format:
- Textual: In this type of documents we find: books, journals, periodicals, acts, accountancy books, parchments, quantitative reports, court decisions, laws, institutional reports, graffiti, plans and programmes, banners, posters, pamphlets, assajos, etc.
- Audiovisual: This type of document includes: video, film, series, documentary and other multimedia content.
- Images: plans, maps, photographs, paintings, graffiti, etc.
- Sound: cinemas, digital support (reproductions of veins, animal sounds, sounds of inanimate objects)
- Digital resources: Digital resources introduce a break in the separation between written and audiovisual texts, allowing their full integration into digital media.
These may include: web pages and websites, social networks on the Internet, blogs and microblogs, content communities such as YouTube and Scribd, Wikis, podcats, digital archives and databases, digital audio such as MP3 and e-books, programming, digital images, digital video, video games, etc.
