Fritz Gerald Forbes

information science WHAT IS Information Science ? ❑ discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring information. ❑ Body of knowledge that provides theoretical basis for information technology and includes subjects such as computer science, library science, artificial intelligence, mathematics of programming, and theory of problem solving. ❑ the study of collecting, organizing, storing, and using electronic information INFORMATIONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO SARACEVIC, T. (2009): “Information science is the science and practice dealing with the effective collection, storage, retrieval, and use of information. It is concerned with recordable information and knowledge, and the technologies and related services that facilitate their management and use. More specifically, information science is a field of professional practice and scientific inquiry addressing the effective communication of information and information objects, particularly knowledge records, among humans in the context of social, organizational, and individual need for and use of information. The domain of information science is the transmission of the universe of human knowledge in recorded form, centering on manipulation (representation, organization, and retrieval) of information, rather than knowing information.” INFORMATIONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO BORKO, H. (1968): “information science is that discipline that investigates the properties and behavior of information, the forces governing the flow of information, and the means of processing information for optimum accessibility and usability. it is concerned with the body of knowledge relating to the origination, collection, organization, storage, retrieval, interpretation, transmission, and utilization of information.” INFORMATIONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO WILLIAMS, M. E. (1987/1988): “… information science brings together and uses the theories, principles, techniques and technologies of a variety of disciplines toward the solution of information problems. among the disciplines brought together in this amalgam called information science are computer sciences, cognitive science, psychology, mathematics, logic, information theory, electronics, communications, linguistics, economics, classification science, systems science, library science and management science. they are brought to bear in solving the problems with information — its generation, organization, representation, processing, distribution, communication and use.” INFORMATION SCIENCE Involves working with computers and enormous quantities of information but focuses on the systems themselves and how they are used, leaning heavily on investigation and research. Information science can be divided into three major areas (with some of their associated disciplines of study): INFORMATIONSCIENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS ❑operations research and computer science COMPUTER HUMAN INTERACTION ❑cognitive studies, communication and psychology Studying computing from a social studies perspective economics, science, technology and law Information science addresses three kinds of problems: INFORMATION CREATION ❑Where does information come from? ❑What are the conditions for information creation? What are its forms? ❑What is its nature (what is it)? INFORMATIONSCIENCE INFORMATION FLOW ❑How does information flow within and among entities, people and organizations? ❑What tools and techniques support this flow? ❑How is information managed and preserved? How do we find it? INFORMATION USE ❑How is information used and reused? ❑How are relationships formed to synthesize information into knowledge? ❑What tools and techniques support use and reuse? INFORMATIONSCIENCE IT ATTEMPTS TO BRING TOGETHER CONCEPTS AND METHODS FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES SUCH AS LIBRARY SCIENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, LINGUISTICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES IN ORDER TO DEVELOP TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES TO AID IN THE HANDLING— THAT IS, IN THE COLLECTION, ORGANIZATION, STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, INTERPRETATION, AND USE—OF INFORMATION. THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION THROUGH TIME REQUIRES THE EXISTENCE OF SOME STORAGE MEDIUM, WHICH IS DESIGNATED A DOCUMENT—HENCE THE TERM DOCUMENTATION WHICH ” EMERGED AS A DISTINCT DISCIPLINE IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, PARALLELING THE RISE OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, WHICH WAS TO PROVIDE ITS MAIN SOURCE OF SUBJECTS THANKS FOR LISTENING