Information science

Information science is a multi disciplinary science with applications in a wide range of aspects. In this presentation there is a brief introduction to what is information science, how it orginated and characteristics of information science. It also covers the various definitions of information science.

1. INFORMATION SCIENCE Presented By: Alichy Sowmya Reg.No.18PIM2855 M.S (Pharm.)2 nd Semester Department of Pharmacoinformatics NIPER, S.A.S Nagar

2. INFORMATION SCIENCE : There is no uniform conception of Information Science Different meanings – Different knowledge domains One thing that has however been common is INFORMATION!

3. Why INFORMATION SCIENCE originated ?

4. Getting the right information when needed Information explosion

5. How INFORMATION SCIENCE originated ?

6. 1890s: Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine 1935: American Documentation institute (ADI) 1945: MEMEX 1960s: Digitalization

7. What is INFORMATION SCIENCE ?

8. Zins (2007) based on a Delphi study, while reporting 50 explanations and definitions of information science. Some are unhelpfully circular – “information science is what information scientists do” While others seem rather too restrictive “information science is a mathematical discipline that studies technological ways of conveying information”

9. Some are so broad as to be of limited use “information science is the totality of the process of communication and understanding, both intra- and inter-personally” While others are unnecessarily polemic – “information science is a self-serving attempt to ennoble what used to be called library science”

10. ...other definitions “Information science is the study of the phenomena surrounding information, including creation, acquisition, indexing, storing, retrieving and disseminating information” “Information science is the rational and systematic study of the way information is created, stored, indexed, disseminated and used”

11. “Information science is the study and practical management of messages (i.e. recorded information, including data recorded as information) through all points of the information lifecycle”

12. Preferable Definition According to Borko (1968) “ Information science is an interdisciplinary science that investigates the properties and behaviour of information, and the techniques, both manual and mechanical, of processing information for optimal storage, retrieval and dissemination .”

13. Even more preferable... According to Saracevic (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.”

14. 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 .

15. Characteristics of INFORMATION SCIENCE Information Science Communication Epistemology Mathematics Computer Science Psychology Linguistics Sociology

16. According to Saracevic the important characteristics of Information Science are: Information science is interdisciplinary in nature Information science is, with many other fields, an active participant in the evolution of the information society Information science has both a strong research component and an even stronger, professional component Information science is connected with information industry

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