The text seeks to raise issues related to responsibility, as a phenomenon, mainly within the context of extensive communication and on the perspective of the complex thought that guides its interpretation. Studies are carried out about web semantics as well as the contribution of Information Science which allows conceptual connections for Web documents, supposing that the author texts, in the future, either individualized or in cooperation, may use structured resources both for contexts and a priori generation of metadata and interrelationships. In a gradual table, distinction is made of citation, intertextuality, authorized copy, non-authorized copy, and plagiarized copy, concepts related to the present issue, in addition to the discussion about multivocality, methodology already applied in academic contexts.
Collective authorship; Citation; Multivocality; Intertextuality