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I saw that there was a direct quote from a book giving a brief description of information science is that necessary or could it be rephrased? Manalxx (talk) 00:05, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

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Current lead, exploded view

I often do this in my own notes to make the notes quicker to scan. This instance did not go well. After exploding it out, I didn't feel like I had much of substance.

Anyone else find the following rather shallow and uninformative?

Information science is an interdisciplinary field primarily concerned with:

analysis

collection

classification

manipulation

storage

retrieval

movement

dissemination

protection

of information.

Practitioners within the field study:

organizational:
application

usage of knowledge

interaction among:
people

organizations

any existing information system

with the aim of:

creating

replacing

improving

understanding

information systems.

Information science is often (mistakenly) considered a branch of computer science.

IS predates computer science and is actually a broad, interdisciplinary field, incorporating not only aspects of computer science, but often diverse fields such as:

archival science

cognitive science

commerce

communications

law

library science

museology

management

mathematics

philosophy

public policy

social sciences.

Information science as an academic discipline is often taught in combination with Library science as Library and Information Science.

Information science deals with all the processes and techniques pertaining to the information life cycle:

capture

generation

packaging

dissemination

transformation

refining

repackaging

usage

storage

communication

protection

presentation in any possible manner.

— MaxEnt 01:41, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Definition of information science

Article says that information science "is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of information" and cites Stock and Stock's handbook for this definition. However, the book says, "Information Science studies the representation, storage and supply as well as the search for and retrieval of relevant (predominantly digital) documents and knowledge (including the environment of information)." (p. 3). Further, it says that sub-disciplines are "– Information Retrieval, – Knowledge Representation, – Knowledge Management and Information Literacy, – Research into the Information Society and Information Markets, – Informetrics, including Web Science." (p. 5)

I especially find the word "movement" of information in the definition given in this article problematic. Never heard of any information science definition including that.

Probably author was trying to write in his own words. Personally, I don't see anything problematic about the use of "movement". Information is not always static, and can be said to have moved when it is communicated.HandsomeBoy (talk) 09:41, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Including mention or subsection of geographic information science?

I was going through the categories, and noted that within the category for Infromation science by discipline, GIScience is listed. When I came to see how it was incorporated in the main page, I was a bit disappointed as a GIScientist to see it was missing. As it seemed to be an obvious addition, I figured I'd check the talk page to see if that omission was based on consensus. On another note, the GIScience article needs to be flushed out a bit as well. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 05:44, 4 December 2023 (UTC)