Domain Of Information Science
What approaches have been used in information science to produce kinds of domain specific knowledge.
Domain of information science. The aim of this paper is to explore the knowledge input and the subject relationship with other disciplines for the domain of information science through a citation analysis from the references of each article from 1998 to 2008 of four leading information science journals journal of the american society for information science and technology information processing and management journal of information science and journal of documentation. Hjørland and albrechtsen formulated domain analysis as a new approach to information science is or library and information science lis. Together these approaches make a unique.
It was then constructed as a response to the cognitive view which at that time had an overwhelming influence in our field. The last variable is an early and clear formulation of this focus which is central to the perspective of domain analysis. Together these approaches make a unique competence for information specialists.
This article presents 11 approaches to domain analysis. The extent to which the professional community possesses a common and unified understanding of the domain of information science is discussed. This article presents 11 approaches to domain analysis.
Domain analysis states that the most fruitful horizon for information science is to study the knowledge domains or thought or discourse communities that are parts of society s division of labor. Marcia bates presentation at the 1987 asis annual meeting information. The article stressed the social ecological and content oriented nature of knowledge as opposed to the more formal computer like approaches that dominated in the 1980s.
The comparison of knowledge flow into and out of the domain of information science reveals the main. Information science is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis collection classification manipulation storage retrieval movement dissemination and protection of information. What kind of knowledge is needed by information specialists working in a specific subject field like medicine sociology or music.
Analyzes and evaluates the various conceptualizations of information science that have appeared in the professional literature over the past 80 years. Domain analysis da is a metatheoretical framework for library and information science lis suggested by the present author in 1993 and since then further developed. Practitioners within and outside the field study the application and the usage of knowledge in organizations along with the interaction between people organizations and any existing information systems with the aim of creating replacing improving or understanding information systems.