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What is Information Science? This comprehensive book answers this key question and explains how information science differs from data science and library science.
Using a range of practical examples, the book explores how information science cuts across disciplines and integrates a range of information into a coherent whole. Starting with a historical overview of information science, subsequent chapters explore:
- communication tools
- information integrity and behaviour
- artificial intelligence and data science
- information retrieval, curation and non-verbal information
- information in technology, education and politics.
A core text for those teaching library and information science as well as practising librarians or those working in information and communication fields, Information Science is an authoritative and subject-defining publication.
In Information Science, Seadle takes a hitherto unforeseen, and yet a novel and multifaceted approach to discuss the evolution, implications and applications of information as a concept, and information science as a discipline. The discussions, observations and commentaries appearing in the chapters throughout this book are a product of Seadle’s rich knowledge, research and scholarship, and senior management experience in the field of information science at national and global levels. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know and understand the role of information in the evolution of our society from the stone age to the modern era of Artificial Intelligence.
Introduction
Chapter One: A History of Information
Chapter Two: A History of the Discipline
Chapter Three: Information Science Organisations
Chapter Four: Language and Information Science
Chapter Five: Culture and Information Science
Chapter Six: Technology
Chapter Seven: Internet Technology
Chapter Eight: Information Integrity
Chapter Nine: Artificial Intelligence
Chapter Ten: Information Behaviour
Chapter Eleven: Data Science
Chapter Twelve: Non-Verbal Information
Chapter Thirteen: Information Retrieval for Technology
Chapter Fourteen: Information Curation
Chapter Fifteen: Information for Education
Chapter Sixteen: Information and Politics
Conclusion