A 1 Information – Informationswissenschaft

Kuhlen, Rainer

doi:10.1515/9783110258264.xx

“…Information science is mostly focused on the type of information that exists outside a human being. Variably and with slightly different delineations, this has been called recorded information (Bates, 1999), information-as-thing (Buckland, 1991), documents (Buckland, 1997(Buckland, , 2018, knowledge in action (Kuhlen, 2013), resources (Glushko, 2016) or documented evidence (Marchionini, 2023).…”

Section: Manifested Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The identity of information science

Petras

2023

JD

2

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PurposeThis paper offers a definition of the core of information science, which encompasses most research in the field. The definition provides a unique identity for information science and positions it in the disciplinary universe.Design/methodology/approachAfter motivating the objective, a definition of the core and an explanation of its key aspects are provided. The definition is related to other definitions of information science before controversial discourse aspects are briefly addressed: discipline vs. field, science vs. humanities, library vs. information science and application vs. theory. Interdisciplinarity as an often-assumed foundation of information science is challenged.FindingsInformation science is concerned with how information is manifested across space and time. Information is manifested to facilitate and support the representation, access, documentation and preservation of ideas, activities, or practices, and to enable different types of interactions. Research and professional practice encompass the infrastructures – institutions and technology –and phenomena and practices around manifested information across space and time as its core contribution to the scholarly landscape. Information science collaborates with other disciplines to work on complex information problems that need multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to address them.Originality/valueThe paper argues that new information problems may change the core of the field, but throughout its existence, the discipline has remained quite stable in its central focus, yet proved to be highly adaptive to the tremendous changes in the forms, practices, institutions and technologies around and for manifested information.

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“…Information science is a relatively new discipline within the scientific landscape. The increasing production of scientific information as well as its integration into mechanisms of economic exploitation and political utilization -which, for example, became apparent in 1957 as a result of what became known as the "Sputnik crisis" -required that the process of conveying information be professionalized to the same degree as the process of generating information in research and development (Kuhlen 2013). A major impetus for A. Michel, Prof. Dr. (*) Fachhochschule Potsdam, Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften, Professur für Informationsdidaktik und Wissenstransfer, Postdam, Germany e-mail: michel@fh-potsdam.de H.-C. Hobohm, Prof. Dr. Fachhochschule Potsdam, Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften, Professur für Bibliothekswissenschaft, Potsdam, Germany e-mail: hobohm@fh-potsdam.de the development of academic information science in the Western world came in the wake of the social and scientific-political discourse as a result of the Weinberg report, as "information," understood as the meritorious good and common good, drew increasing attention (Weinberg et al 1963).…”

Section: Basic Conditions For Information Science Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inquiry-based learning-undergraduate research: the German multidisciplinary experience

Younas

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Noor

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2020

Educational Gerontology

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“…Information science is a relatively new discipline within the scientific landscape. The increasing production of scientific information as well as its integration into mechanisms of economic exploitation and political utilization -which, for example, became apparent in 1957 as a result of what became known as the "Sputnik crisis" -required that the process of conveying information be professionalized to the same degree as the process of generating information in research and development (Kuhlen 2013) the development of academic information science in the Western world came in the wake of the social and scientific-political discourse as a result of the Weinberg report, as "information," understood as the meritorious good and common good, drew increasing attention (Weinberg et al 1963).…”

Section: Basic Conditions For Information Science Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inquiry-Based Learning – Undergraduate Research

2019

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A 1 Information – Informationswissenschaft

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The identity of information science

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