This article represents a stimulus for debate and the resolving of key issues in several co-related fields: the divide between information philosophy and those philosophies and theories that are unjustifiably overlooked with regards to their relevance to librarianship and information science; knowledge and wisdom as categories of information science; professional responsibility for the philosophy of librarianship and information science; the connection between computer science and other sciences as a new scientific paradigm. Contextual (meta)analysis of selected relevant sources was used along with the philosophical method of cognition by notions. Domain analysis was used in the case of the classification scheme of information science cognition. With regards to the chosen issues and purposes it was found that the philosophy of librarianship and information science builds the foundation of theoretical and practical work in the professional environment of librarians and informatologists. The pluralistic rationalism of Karl Popper proved very useful to the philosophy of librarianship and information science. The ‘data–information–knowledge–wisdom’ model belongs to the domain of information science and/or the management and organisation of knowledge as a subdiscipline. For the philosophical discourse in librarianship and information science, experts from this field, oriented towards theory and research are most demanded, followed by professional philosophers as “outsiders”. After introducing the “computer” paradigm to modern sciences, there is a possibility for the philosophy of information science to become part of the philosophy of mathematics and sciences, where it had belonged prior to the “emancipation” of social sciences, and where it could develop even further.
The aim of this paper was to subject-index a corpus of contemporary Croatian proverbs using denotative (literal) and connotative (figurative) terms, and to develop a dual thesaurus for searching on the Croatian Proverbs Portal.
Web archives are collections produced by libraries and other heritage institutions to permanently preserve online heritage. They often contain large amounts of material stored from the web through the use of web crawlers. From a usage perspective, they are often unpredictable, non-transparent and inconsistent data sources that contain numerous content gaps.
This article provides an overview of computer-based catalogue systems designed for use by library clients, seeing present day discovery systems on the same trajectory as the older online public access catalogues (OPACs) which they are gradually replacing, both in technical development and their approach to client use scenarios. It traces the history of the OPAC/discovery system from its origins in the library automation of the 1960s through to the present and discusses the main technical standards which have formed its development.
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.
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.
The first part of the article focuses on the semiotic perspective of information theory, the second part, however, is based on the mathematical model of epidemiology or on the notion that information spreads like an infectious disease. This opens up a broad field of information and communication ecology.
The paper presents the situation in Serbian village libraries. It also points out that these libraries do not keep pace with the development of library and information activities in Serbia and that among their users, similar to those in public libraries in cities, there is only a small number of farmers.
Information is part of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) "spectrum". In optics, "spectrum" is a complete range of rainbow colours into which white light is separated when it passes through a glass prism. Based on conclusions different sciences have come to that relate to data, information, knowledge and understanding of meaning, as well as to memory, intelligence, consciousness and wisdom, a renewed theory of information is needed.
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