1st Edition

Information Science History, Ideas, Applications

By Michael Seadle Copyright 2025
252 Pages
by Facet Publishing

252 Pages
by Facet Publishing

What is Information Science? This comprehensive book answers this key question by providing a detailed definition and analysis of information science and how it differs from data science and library science. Drawing on a range of practical examples, the book explores how information science uniquely cuts across disciplines and integrates different streams of information into a coherent whole... Read more

Introduction

Chapter One: A History of Information

Chapter Two: A History of the Discipline

Chapter Three: Information Science Organisations

Chapter Four: Language and Information Science

Chapter Five: Culture and Information Science

Chapter Six: Technology

Chapter Seven: Internet Technology

Chapter Eight: Information Integrity

Chapter Nine: Artificial Intelligence

Chapter Ten: Information Behaviour

Chapter Eleven: Data Science

Chapter Twelve: Non-Verbal Information

Chapter Thirteen: Information Retrieval for Technology

Chapter Fourteen: Information Curation

Chapter Fifteen: Information for Education

Chapter Sixteen: Information and Politics

Conclusion

Biography

Michael Seadle is a retired Professor at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was Executive Director of the international iSchools organisation. He has previously published The Measurement of Information Integrity, Quantifying Research Integrity and Educating the Profession: 40 Years of the IFLA Section on Education and Training.