Information science in transition / edited by Alan Gilchrist.
Gilchrist, Alan.; Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain)
2009
Z665 .I5826 2009
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Title
Information science in transition / edited by Alan Gilchrist.
ISBN
1856046931
9781856046930
9781856049986 (e-book)
Published
London : Facet Publishing, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations.
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Z665 .I5826 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
020
Summary
Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet was unprecedented; search engines dealt with it in the only way possible - scan as much as they could and throw it all into an inverted index. But now search engines are beginning to experiment with deep web searching and attention to taxonomies, and the Semantic Web is demonstrating how much more can be done with a computer if you give it knowledge. What does this mean for the skills and focus of the information science (or sciences) community? Should information designers and information managers work more closely to create computer based information systems for more effective retrieval? Will information science become part of computer science and does the rise of the term informatics demonstrate the convergence of information science and information technology - a convergence that must surely develop in the years to come? -- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gilchrist, Alan.
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