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 ac
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 tha
Dear Marcin, Gordana, and FIS colleagues,
It is impossible for me not to answer of such very important and, I think,
on time proposal.
What we have to do?
Of course, to establish common paradigm !?!
The great problem here is that every author stay on his own position and do
not accept the othe
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
of the American Society for Information Science & Te
Dear Marcin, Gordana, Loet, Krassimir and Colleagues,
I did not think I was going to participate in this discussion, being as I am so
far "outside" the place when curricula are established and syllabi needed.
Yet when I saw your message, Loet, I was concerned that something very
important in th
Its worse Stan, there is no such thing as biological information its a
chimera.
Its much easier to answer the question what is life.
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
Dear Loet,
I think you made an important point.
It is really a problem if we use the same term "Information Science" for
different things.
What "Information Science" in the Web-of-Science's Science Citation Index
journals is about is something different from what we thought of.
"Science" in thei
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