Information science in transition / edited by Alan Gilchrist.

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TextPublisher: London : Facet Pub., 2009Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 401 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781856049986
1856049981

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Information science in transitionDDC classification:

020 22

LOC classification:

Z665 .I5826 2009eb

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06.00
06.64

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Contents:

1. Fifty years of UK research in information science. -- 2. Smoother pebbles and the shoulder of giants: the developing foundations of information science. -- 3. The last 50 years of knowledge organizations: a journey through my personal archives. -- 4. On the history of evaluation in IR. -- 5. The information user: past, present and future. -- 6. The sociological turn in information science. -- 7. From chemical documentation to chemoinformatics: 50 years of chemical information science. -- 8. Health informatics: current issues and challenges. -- 9. Social informatics and sociotechnical research: a view from the UK. -- 10. The evolution of visual information retrieval. -- 11. Information policies: yesterday, today, tomorrow. -- 12. The disparity in professional qualifications and progress in information handling: a European perspective. -- 13. Electronic scholarly publishing and Open Access. -- 14. Social software: fun and games, or business tools? -- 15. Bibliometrics to webometrics. -- 16. How I learned to love the Brits.

Summary: Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet was unprecedented; search engines dealt with it in the only way possible - scan as much as they could and throw it all into an inverted index. But now search engines are beginning to experiment with deep web searching and attention to taxonomies, and the Semantic Web is demonstrating how much more can be done with a computer if you give it knowledge. What does this mean for the skills and focus of the information science (or sciences) community? Should information designers and information managers work more closely to create computer based information systems for more effective retrieval? Will information science become part of computer science and does the rise of the term informatics demonstrate the convergence of information science and information technology - a convergence that must surely develop in the years to come? -- Back cover.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet was unprecedented; search engines dealt with it in the only way possible - scan as much as they could and throw it all into an inverted index. But now search engines are beginning to experiment with deep web searching and attention to taxonomies, and the Semantic Web is demonstrating how much more can be done with a computer if you give it knowledge. What does this mean for the skills and focus of the information science (or sciences) community? Should information designers and information managers work more closely to create computer based information systems for more effective retrieval? Will information science become part of computer science and does the rise of the term informatics demonstrate the convergence of information science and information technology - a convergence that must surely develop in the years to come? -- Back cover.

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