Hi Guy.
It seams that you sent your message only to me :-)
I am forwarding now to FIS
By the way, "Domain Analisys" as in Knowledge Organization (Hjørland,
Birger. "Domain analysis in information science: eleven
approaches–traditional as well as innovative." Journal of documentation
58.4 (2002): 42
Dear Moises, Guy, Stan---and colleagues,
I would not agree with the "silo" interpretation of scientific domains,
at least that's not the way Rosenbloom and many others (myself included)
understand them. See the reference mentioned below by Moises and my own
(Scientomics: An emergent perspectiv
I agree with Pedro.
That is the way I understand that the concept of "Domain" must be discussed
in Information Science.
About the "explosion" in number of disciplines, this is analized and called
"Knowledge Pathology (Patologia do Saber)" by Hilton Japiassu (a great
brazilian philosopher) and in hi
