Tvrtko-Matija Šercar Archives - Organizacija znanja

16. 12. 2022

Dialectical reflections on scientific and professional e-journals

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

The paper presents the contributions of participants at the consultation on scientific and professional publications on e-journals at the beginning of the 1990s, which was organised at the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) in Maribor in December 1991. The emphasis is also placed on IZUM’s e-bulletin, which was entered into one of the first directories of e-journals and other e-bulletins worldwide from the same year. Communication is the essence of scientific progress, particularly e-journals.

23. 4. 2021

Library and information science, Science

Connection between information science and psychology based on the example of the paradox of wisdom, part 1

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

Wisdom is one of many human mental capabilities. Mental vitality is stereotypically associated with youth and mental decline with old age. However, also aging is a price of wisdom. The connection between neurological decline (senility, dementias) and wisdom development during aging is referred to as the paradox of wisdom.

3. 12. 2019

Science

Hoaxes, myths and prejudice in science: example of Pierre Trémaux

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

The literature review is an integral part of research. The story of Pierre Trémaux (1818–1895) illustrates how factors, such as hoaxes, fabrications, untrue stories, myths and prejudice, which have nothing to do in science, difficulties in comprehending and accepting new scientific paradigms and also slow and geographically limited dissemination of scientific findings, which results in not being familiar with scientific findings and discoveries elsewhere in the world, are harmful for the ecology of scientific communication.

31. 12. 2018

Social science and humanities

Daniel Schraad-Tischler in Christof Schiller, Social Justice in the EU – Index Report 2016: Social Inlcusion Monitor Europe

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

31. 12. 2017

Social science and humanities

Victoria L. Lemieux and Stephanie E. Trapnell, Public Access to Information for Development: A Guide to the Effective Implementation of Right to Information Laws

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

31. 12. 2016

Social science and humanities

Structural crisis of copyright, part 2

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

Avtorska pravica je vrsta intelektualne lastnine. Beseda “avtorska pravica” ni najbolj posrečen prevod izraza “copyright” (pravica do kopiranja izvoda), hkrati pa je tudi zavajajoča, kot da bi bil osrednja oseba avtor, ne pa imetnik pravice do kopiranja. Avtor je vsekakor imetnik moralne avtorske pravice, vendar je zelo redko tudi imetnik materialnih pravic. Moralne avtorske pravice nimajo tržne vrednosti in so s stališča družbenega sistema, v katerem šteje le denar, nepomembne. Stališče do avtorske pravice je odvisno tudi od poslovnega modela, kot sta npr. model “dolgega repa” ali model “zastonj”.

30. 6. 2016

Social science and humanities

Structural crisis of copyright, part 1

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

Copyright is a type of intellectual property. Not only is the Slovene term “avtorska pravica” (author’s right) not the best translation of the term copyright (i.e. the right to copy an item), it is also misleading, as if the central person is the author and not the holder of the right to copy something. While the author is undoubtedly the holder of the moral copyright, he is rarely also the holder of the material rights. Moral copyright has no market value and is insignificant from the perspective of a social system where only money counts. The attitude towards copyright also depends on the business model, e.g. “long-tail” or “freechange”.

31. 12. 2015

Bibliographies

Od RBU do COBIB

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

Relating to the connection between information science and bibliography (and librarianship), the elements are given to compare the concepts of Répertoire Bibliographique Universel (RBU) and COBIB within the COBISS system. Different aspects of understanding the development of bibliographies and the author’s personal view of the development of bibliographies are presented. According to Paul Otlet’s idea, conceived at the end of the 19th century, RBU was to represent the universal bibliography of all books and other publications from all countries, from all times and from all subject areas, organised by subject and author. Catalogues should represent the first stage of RBU.

30. 6. 2015

COBISS

Socialna ekonomija sistema COBISS in mreže COBISS.Net

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

A historical view of the social economy of the COBISS system and of the COBISS.Net network is presented. Library economics is an important part of librarianship. From an economic point of view, the COBISS co-operative online bibliographic information system and the COBISS.Net network are examples of a genuine development of such systems with typical elements of post-market paradigm of the social economy.

30. 6. 2015

Library and information science

Antropologija informacij: transdisciplinarno podpolje informacijske znanosti

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

The emergence of information and technology anthropology, and cyborg anthropology at this point runs along a side route. Anthropology of information and technology is the use of the anthropological approach in information science and vice versa, information science should be one of the most important anthropological sciences.