Research agendas in human-information interaction (HII) are varied and divergent. The interdisciplinary lens of information studies offers a convergent view of HII scholarship. The purpose of this paper is to taxonomically document the divergent scholarship in human-information interaction, and construct a unifying ontology of HII discourse, using bibliometric techniques.Les programmes de recherche en matière d'interaction homme-information sont variés et divergents. L'interdisciplinarité des sciences de l'information offre toutefois un portrait convergent de la mission professorale en matière d'interaction homme-information. L'objectif de la recherche est de documenter du point de vue taxinomique les divergences de la mission d'enseignement de l'interaction homme-information et de construire une ontologie unifiée du discours au moyen de techniques bibliométriques.***Student to CAIS/ACSI Award Winner******Full paper in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science***

In 2002, Tom Wilson argued about knowledge management (KM) \that the bandwagon lacks wheels". In the same issue of the same journal, Leonard Ponzi and Michael Koenig posited that KM was perhaps \in the process of establishing itself as a new aspect of management". Who was correct? This article examines bibliographic evidence to conclude that the latter interpretation was correct, that KM has¯rmly established itself as a major, and to the extent that permanence can be established in this rapidly changing world, permanent component of management. It then argues that the reasons for KM's permanence all fundamentally derive from the common sense of KM.

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People develop attitudes toward things in many ways. While direct experience can be the foundation of permanent attitude formation, both indirect experience and referential input from others are strong influences on both attitude development and changes in personal attitude. The psychological factors that govern attitude are varied. They are documented in the scholarly literature of many fields, and frequently reference the study of people and technology. Research in the use of information systems (IS), however, does not typically aggregate the psychological factors influencing user attitude. The purpose of this chapter is to bring together the divergent empirical evidence of IS user attitude formation. A grounded theory approach is used to formally identify and analyze this evidence. Such analysis can provide a more cohesive understanding of what is known about user attitudes toward information systems, and can offer an ontological framework for more formalized study of the relationship between people and information systems.

The societal archive (virtual though it might be) is made up of information objects of all kindseverything from stories to talismans to buttons to films to documents. To date the boundaries around domains within which these objects are stored have dictated both the ways in which we classify objects and the ways in which, therefore, they may be retrieved and used for scholarship According to Hjørland (2003, 98) rationally deduced schema predetermine the potential use of intellectual content by limiting its retrieval. The empirical derivation of units of classification, on the other hand, particularly in developing or evolving systems, provides a basis upon which conceptual systems can be built.We wish to suggest an approach to the mapping of information objects-that is, all artifacts that are considered informative and therefore might be retrievable through an information system such as a catalog, database, or search engine-that will reveal undiscovered semantic relationships. In this presentation we will use the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (hereafter CIDOC CRM) to map select