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Abstract

The information age is empowered by being connected and knowing the best options for the job. "Introduction to Information Science and Technology" discusses how to maximize the use of such technology in today's importance of connecting information to all those involved. Chapters grant a comprehensive overview of information technology, who needs the information, organization, use of the internet, and theories for more effective use in our future. "Introduction to Information Science and Technology" is a fine delve into the fast combining concepts of information and technology, and how to apply it to one's own endeavors, a core addition for community and college library technology collections.

Content

Our world of information -- Foundations of information science and technology -- Information needs, seeking, and use -- Representation of information -- Organization of information -- Computers and networks -- Structured information systems -- Information system applications -- Evaluation of information systems -- Information management -- Publication and information technologies -- Information policy -- The information professions -- Information theory.

Imprint

Medford, NJ : Information Today

LCSH

Information science
Information technology

Subject

Information science
Information technology

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Abstract

An argument that information exists at different levels of analysis-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic-and an exploration of the implications. Although this is the Information Age, there is no universal agreement about what information really is. Different disciplines view information differently; engineers, computer scientists, economists, linguists, and philosophers all take varying and apparently disconnected approaches. In this book, Antonio Badia distinguishes four levels of analysis brought to bear on information: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and network-based. Badia explains each of these theoretical approaches in turn, discussing, among other topics, theories of Claude Shannon and Andrey Kolomogorov, Fred Dretske's description of information flow, and ideas on receiver impact and informational interactions. Badia argues that all these theories describe the same phenomena from different perspectives, each one narrower than the previous one. The syntactic approach is the more general one, but it fails to specify when information is meaningful to an agent, which is the focus of the semantic and pragmatic approaches. The network-based approach, meanwhile, provides a framework to understand information use among agents. Badia then explores the consequences of understanding information as existing at several levels. Humans live at the semantic and pragmatic level (and at the network level as a society), computers at the syntactic level. This sheds light on some recent issues, including "fake news" (computers cannot tell whether a statement is true or not, because truth is a semantic notion) and "algorithmic bias" (a pragmatic, not syntactic concern). Humans, not computers, the book argues, have the ability to solve these issues.

Content

Introduction -- Information as codes : Shannon, Kolmogorov and the start of it all -- Information as content : semantics, possible worlds and all that jazz -- Information as pragmatics : impact and consequences -- Information as communication : networks and the phenomenon of emergence -- Will the real information please stand up? -- Is Shannon's theory a theory of information? -- Computers and information I : what can computers do? -- Computers and information II : machine learning, big data and algorithic bias -- Humans and information --Conclusions : where from here?

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Information science / Philosophy
Information theory

Series

History and foundations of information science

Subject

Information science / Philosophy
Information theory

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Abstract

Landmark textbook taking a whole subject approach to information science as a discipline. The authors' expert narratives guides you through each of the essential components of information science, offering a concise introduction an expertly chosen readings and resources. This is the definitve science textbook for students of this subject, and of information and knowledge management, librarianship, archives and records management worldwide.

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Information science

Subject

Information science

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Abstract

This book contributes to discussions within Information Retrieval and Science (IR&S) by improving our conceptual understanding of the relationship between humans and technology. A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search and related processes toward the more general phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. Technology-mediated experience accounts for an increasing proportion of human lived experience; the phenomenon of mediation gets at the heart of the human-machine relationship. Framing IR&S more broadly in this way generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them with those shared across disciplines dealing with socio-technical phenomena. This reorientation of IR&S requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science of technology-mediated experience (STME). Arafat and Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the foundational concepts underlying IR&S and other technical disciplines but also boldly call for a radical, systematic appropriation of the sciences and humanities to create a better understanding of the human-technology relationship. Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IR&S and consider ideas of progress from the history and philosophy of science. They argue that progress in IR&S requires explicit linking between technical and nontechnical aspects of discourse. They develop a network of basic questions and present a discursive framework for addressing these questions. With this book, Arafat and Ashoori provide both a manifesto for the reimagining of their field and the foundations on which a reframed IR&S would rest.

Content

The embedding of the foundational in the adhoc -- Notions of progress in information retrieval -- From growth to progress I : methodology for understanding progress -- From growth to progress II : the network of discourse -- Basic questions characterising foundations discourse -- Enduring nature of foundations -- Foundations as the way to the authoritative against the authoritarian : a conclusion

LCSH

Information science
Information retrieval

Series

History and foundations of information science

Subject

Information science
Information retrieval

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LCSH

Information technology
Information storage and retrieval systems

Subject

Information technology
Information storage and retrieval systems

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LCSH

Library & information sciences c 2000 to c 2010 ; c 2010 to c 2020

Subject

Library & information sciences c 2000 to c 2010 ; c 2010 to c 2020

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Abstract

Mittlerweile sind mehr als zehn Jahre seit der Gründung der Wikipedia vergangen. Die kollaborativ zusammengestellte Online-Enzyklopädie blickt auf eine beispiellose Erfolgsgeschichte zurück und hat inzwischen sogar viele klassische Lexika das Fürchten gelehrt. Aber: Es gibt gar nicht die eine Wikipedia! Stattdessen handelt es sich bei dem Projekt um hunderte verschiedene, weitgehend voneinander unabhängig agierende Sprachversionen. Sie sind nicht nur unterschiedlich groß, sondern bestehen auch aus differierenden Inhalten. Artikel zu ein und demselben Stichwort können von Wikipedia zu Wikipedia erheblich voneinander abweichen. Von der Gemeinschaft bereits erarbeitetes Wissen steht daher nicht allen Nutzern in der Welt gleichermaßen zur Verfügung. Mit einem forcierten interlingualen Wissensaustausch ließe es sich aber für eine gegenseitige Bereicherung der Wikipedias nutzen. Das Buch gibt zunächst einen allgemeinen Überblick zur Wikipedia, geht auf ihre Entstehung, ihre Funktionsweise und auf die beteiligten Akteure ein. Auch das "Erfolgsgeheimnis" des Nachschlagewerks sowie aktuelle Herausforderungen werden herausgearbeitet. Die anschließende Untersuchung zeigt, wie sehr verschieden große Wikipedias voneinander differieren und wo die Unterschiede im Einzelnen liegen. Danach folgt eine Vorstellung von Ansätzen, Werkzeugen und Schwierigkeiten des interlingualen Wissensaustauschs zwischen den Sprachversionen. Der letzte Teil entwirft schließlich ein detailliertes Konzept für einen neuartigen Wissensaustausch, das aus mehreren ineinandergreifenden Komponenten rund um den Kern einer speziellen Übersetzungsoberfläche besteht. Das Konzept lässt sich auch als Blaupause für Lokalisierungsbemühungen multisprachlicher Wikis nutzen, wie sie international operierende Unternehmungen zunehmend einsetzen. Die Ausarbeitung, auf der dieses Buch basiert, wurde mit dem FHP-Preis 2011 für die beste Abschlussarbeit im Studiengang "Information und Dokumentation" der FH Potsdam ausgezeichnet.