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Abstract

Discusses a number of definitions of information management and information resources management and describes the historical development of information management from printed paper to information resources to strategic information management. States the need for research into the establishment of theoretical systematization

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Übers. des Titels: Concepts and historical development of information management and information resources management

Theme

Information Resources Management

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Abstract

Telecommunications networks and standard protocols for information retrieval aid physical access to geographically scattered libraries. However, users face problems when searching for foreign language documents if they do not have a certain command of the relevant language(s). Multilingual facilities, in particular multilingual presentation and retrieval, can intellectually open the library catalogue to a wider range of international users. Describes an attempt at using multilingual resources with a view to improving the user OPAC interaction throught he TRANSLIB project and its integration at 'Biblioteca Hispanica de la Agencia Espanola de Cooperation Internacional'

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Abstract

For higher education, new technology opens up the possibility of online access to international information networks comprising the totality of human knowledge. Developing countries however risk becoming marginalized because they have no culture of cooperation. The Colombian Institute for the Development of Higher Education, ICFES, has been instrumental in developing the National Science and Technology Information Network, linked in 1993 to the National Higher Education System. The next step is to create a common communications infrastructure for all national systems, based on Internet protocols, so that all information units can link into the resources of the virtual library

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Übers. d. Titels: New paradigms for information access and use: the virtual library

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Abstract

INFOBILA, a regional database of Latin American library and information science literature supported by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Organisation of American States and IFLA, is constructing a thesaurus to harmonise terminology used in Spanish-speaking countries, each of which has its own variations. A group comprising experts from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile was initiated in 1995 to develop standardised terms, using thesauri from these countries. By the next meeting in 1996, group members will have individually tested the provisional integrated list and these results will have to be used to finalise a definitive thesaurus

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Übers. des Titels: Latin American library and information science thesaurus

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Abstract

The successful implementation of Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS) requires a previous design based on a methodology that includes key steps as follows: capture of critical information and analysis of the current document situation: functional and/or technical options that involve the treatment of the document fonds considered; document management applications design (data, text, images, audio, video) under a functional, technical and economic focus; global and modular project defined as a strategic EDMS plan

Date

11. 2.1999 21:02:22

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Abstract

The idea of classification is based on the concept of fixed and absolute order, though each classification system reflects its historical origin and its subject to the characteristics of the individual who applies it as well as variations in the real world. Traditional classifications sought to establish differences and hierarchies, reflected in libraries in such systems as LC and Dewey. The scientific revolution of the mid 20th century introduced theories of interdisciplinarity resulting in the need for new approaches to library classification as a practical tool for locating texts as well as a way of ordering concepts. Computerised systems offer the advantage of flexibility, with the concomitant problem of noise. Users must therefore be trained to understand that categories and networks are employed not as dogmatically but relatively

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Date

30. 3.2002 19:45:22

Source

Revista Española de Documentaçion Cientifica. 22(1999) no.2, S.198-219

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Revista interamericana de bibliotecologia. 22(1999) no.1, S.21-35

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Abstract

The concept of information provokes discussion in many scientific realms, e.g. in physics, the relationship between information and entropy. Information has been associated by communication engineers with the freedom of choosing symbols to construct a message. To confuse matters further, Shannon used entropy as a metaphor in his analysis of statistical behaviour of symbols, but Stonier points out the possibility of a different relationship between information and entropy. The definition of information should ba analogous to the physical definition of energy, the capability of performing work, whereas the the capability of organizing systems corresponds to information. Moreover, it is necessary to distinguish the reality of information on its own from the meaning of information inside each context. One of the most striking contexts are biological systems which rely on sophisticated information processing mechanisms as yet not fully understood

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Übers. des Titels: Information, abstraction or reality?

Theme

Information

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Source

Boletin de la Asociacion Andaluza de Bibliotecarios. 14(1999) no.57, S.11-22

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Revista Española de Documentaçion Cientifica. 22(1999) no.1, S.34-49

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Abstract

There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes information or information science, but Kuhn's notion of paradigms provides a useful perspective for analysing current theories. If information science is considerd as an 'immature science', i.e. one yet to develop its own paradigm, this links it to the debate about science and technology: many of the activities associated with information science, e.g. organising information for users by creating databases, belong to the domain of technology. On this basis, computer related activities concerned with information can be dissociated from the domain of computer science, thus establishing an independent status for information science

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Übers. d. Titels: Information science in the paradigmatic view of Thomas Kuhn: elements for reflection

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Abstract

Criticizes the current processes of information management, with the objective of arriving at a new concept of the electronic document. Discusses problems of human language in the context of information management. Examines the problem of information from the point of view of the structure of knowledge, by analysing dysfunction in current processes of information management. Proposes a model of knowledge nearer to the human mind called 'document hypertext'. A combined interface of information management id also applicable in studies of hardware, graphic interfaces and metaphors of visualization of information. The current excessive fragmentation and artificial treatment of information structures could be avoided by simplifying of processes of information management and creating integral interfaces that bring information systems closer to the user

Theme

Information

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Abstract

Library science has no strong scientific image bacause it lacks a consistent theoretical framework. The key element is information, information is knowlegde, and library science is knowledge in the service of society. Society itself is sustained by development, information and ideology, with information as the transforming element. Because of the universal need for information, library science is increasingly valued. The great problem is to delimit the object of study because of its vast area of application. The goals of library science are utopian, bound up with making information available to everyone in the best possible way. But although developments suchg as the Internet seem able to make this possible, in reality computerised information is available only to a minority

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Übers. des Titels: Information: utopia and reality in library science

Theme

Information

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Abstract

Contemporary studies of information and documentation focus on 3 dimensions: the theoretical, i.e. the sciences of interpretation of text; the practical, i.e. the impact of new technology on systems of inscription; and the political, i.e. the consequent proceses of social identification and cultural autonomy. Documentation languages provide rules for transforming items of information into documentation products, and the process of information analysis fixes meaning by applying such rules in the context of collective experience. Information transfer and communication thus depends on a communicational contract setting out the parameters for negotiating meaning. This requires the information analyst and other professionals to discuss the rules of the information game openly with external participants, as the necessary condition for a democratic and equitable science of information

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Übers. des Titels: The actions of information transfer and communication

Theme

Information

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Abstract

Discussion of the interdisciplinary nature of information science as a field of research, based on essential concepts such as science, information and information science itself. Presents comprehensive themes of research on information science and the difficulties faced by the researcher in this field in the search to attain the existing scientific parameters and the expected prerequisites of any researcher

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Übers. des Titels: The interdisciplinary nature of information science as a field of research

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Abstract

Proposes a new definition of the word 'information' in order to reconcile conceptual differences and provide elements for the creation of a new paradigm. Cites some papers devoted to the concept 'information' specifically those that identify and characterize the different ways of thinking, as background to substantiate the proposed definition

Content

Paper presented at the International Conference of Information INFO '95, Havana, Cuba, 25-29 Sep 1995

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Übers. des Titels: Information: a new conceptual proposal

Theme

Information

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Abstract

There is no general consensus about what constitutes 'quality' of information, and the tendency is to replace it with 'value'. It is generally considered as a multidimensional category incorporating transcendental, intrinsic and contingent aspects. Emphasising one of these to the exclusion of the others reduces quality to a subjective basis, and removes the possibility of consistent professional practice: the information provider is left to act as a filter between the 'truth' of information and the 'desire' of the user

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Übers. d. Titels: Problematics of the concept of 'quality' of information

Theme

Information

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Abstract

The term information lacks precicion and there is no consensus about its definition because of the differing philosophical theories used as a basis for interpretation e.g. materialism, idealism. Draws on the ideas of Locke, Kant and Piaget to analyse the essential nature of information, concluding that for the purposes of library science, information is best understood as an ideal entity constructed by the individual synthesising his sensory perceptions of the actual world, which is then objectivised resulting in the world of information, part of the wider world but with its own structures, laws and interrelations. This make communication possible

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Übers. des Titels: Information as an objectivised ideal entity

Theme

Information

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Abstract

The information process is characterised by 3 phases: potential information, consolidated information and information as knowledge, at which point is becomes a means rather than an end. In the social context, knowledge functions both as a social institution and a socialising institution: since reality is constantly changing, knowledge thus becomes a perspective determined by individual experience. Distribution of knowledge is controlled by those who have access, and in a society marked by inequality such as Brazil this virtually excludes all those living on the margins. The production and distribution of knowledge is thus based on capitalist criteria, reflecting the practices of the owners of capital

Footnote

Übers. d. Titels: The process of production and distribution of information as knowledge: some reflections

Theme

Information