Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-05 Thread Krassimir Markov
this. Friendly regards Krassimir From: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 8:38 PM To: Joseph Brenner Cc: m...@aiu.ac.jp ; Krassimir Markov Subject: RE: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education Dear Joseph, Now I have no right to post to the list, but I anyway want

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-05 Thread Stanley N Salthe
And it could feature in 'Science for Non-Majors' courses as well. STAN On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Guy A Hoelzer hoel...@unr.edu wrote: Hi All, I agree with those who are suggesting that Information Science makes sense as a widely useful way to think about different scientific

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-04 Thread Robin Faichney
Saturday, December 3, 2011, 8:43:47 PM, Gavin wrote: I was reading Richard Dawkins book “the greatest show on earth” and almost fell over backwards when I read his comments about life and information. He says the only difference between living matter and non living matter is information. That

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-04 Thread Krassimir Markov
by the ancient philosophers. Friendly regards Krassimir -Original Message- From: m...@aiu.ac.jp Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 12:57 PM To: fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education Dear Colleagues: Thank you for many interesting contributions in the first day

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-04 Thread Joseph Brenner
- Original Message - From: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic To: Loet Leydesdorff Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education Dear Loet, I think you made an important point. It is really

[Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread mjs
Dear Colleagues: There are some questions which periodically return to FIS discussions without conclusive answers. For instance: What is information? However, the lack of consensus regarding central concept is not an obstacle in the development of Information Science. There is no commonly

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Regarding: Information Science is a perfect tool for integration of curriculum, especially in the context of Liberal Arts education. Which other concept, if not information, can be applied in all possible contexts of education? I would point out that there have been two previous disciplines that

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread Krassimir Markov
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 2:23 PM To: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ ; fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education Dear Colleagues: There are some questions which periodically return to FIS discussions without conclusive answers. For instance: What

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
of Information Science Education Dear Colleagues: There are some questions which periodically return to FIS discussions without conclusive answers. For instance: What is information? However, the lack of consensus regarding central concept is not an obstacle in the development of Information

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
] Discussion of Information Science Education Dear colleagues, The category of Information and Library Science contains 40+ scholarly journals in the Web-of-Science's Science Citation Index. Of these at least 10 can be identified as Information Science. The lead journal is the Journal

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
I find this view a little disturbing. If you do not have a definition, of some kind, of the term information. Your claim is simply equivalent to saying that you have no idea what you are talking about. How can you proceed without a clarification of terms? I can at least point toward living