Information Science (IS)
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In the wake of the Information Technology (IT) revolution, the field of information science (IS) has emerged and very quickly become an increasingly significant academic as well as practical discipline. Recently, the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) held a summit meeting in Boston. Richard Zwies (2000) described the results of this summit meeting as constituting a critical event in the development of the field of information architecture, which encompasses system design and development, information retrieval, graphic design, knowledge of organizational and user behavior, and skills in the area of existing and emerging technologies. Though IS is a relatively new discipline, it has quickly generated a myriad number of studies that attempt to identify the most critical areas needing research and/or refinement as the field itself advances. The purpose of this report is to draw upon the literature to identify six specific topic areas or problems in IS needing research and describe the rationale for conducting research into these areas. First, however, it is important to note that while this report will consider only six of the critical concerns facing the new IS discipline, there are any number of issues that may be as significant as the problems discussed herein. Zwies (2000), for example, highlighted the fact that as a new field is being developed (and despite its dramatic advances in record time, IS remains a new discipline), creating congruence and syne
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, development, and evaluation can be used to help improve the relationship between people and recorded knowledge, its creation, capture, storage, preservation, identification, dissemination, and use. Higher education and particularly graduate education is an ideal locus identified by Griffiths (2000) for research leading to greater integration of the various disciplines subsumed within the practice of information science.
A fourth important issue in IS today was identified by Myburgh (2000), who contends that developments in today's IT and IS spectrum have profound social implications suggesting that the field has moved well beyond data management within organizations and now influences the ways in which organizational and interpersonal communication takes place. Myburgh (2000) sees a need to create a convergence of IT and information management (IM). This new convergence is seen as affecting the nature and fabric of societies and organizations because they are increasingly predicated upon information flows. IT no longer handles raw data or just information and IT systems are now being developed which address the most intangible and unquantifiable yet probably most valuable resource of all: knowledge itself.
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