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Anatomical Information Science
2005The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) is a map of the human body. Like maps of other sorts – including the map-like representations we find in familiar anatomical atlases – it is a representation of a certain portion of spatial reality as it exists at a certain (idealized) instant of time.
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Humans, information and science
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1996The use of information forms the basis of nursing policies, standards and professional codes of conduct Although used intuitively, nurses must now also grapple empirically with information needs often defined by others, and with the technology used to capture and process it Even the briefest contemplation of ‘information’ reveals a truly pervasive ...
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Journal of Information Science, 1990
Information scientists often see their subject as severely practical. However, the range of theory being applied in infor mation science has expanded considerably over the past thirty years. The basic question now is not whether applicable theo ries can be found to fit the various branches of information science, but rather whether the existing range ...
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Information scientists often see their subject as severely practical. However, the range of theory being applied in infor mation science has expanded considerably over the past thirty years. The basic question now is not whether applicable theo ries can be found to fit the various branches of information science, but rather whether the existing range ...
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Linguistics and information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1972AbstractThis paper defines the relationship between linguistics and information science in terms of a common interest in natural language. The notion of automated processing of natural language–i.e., machine simulation of the language processing activities of a human–provides novel possibilities for interaction between linguists, who have a theoretical
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On the development of information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973AbstractThe citations appearing in two recent comprehensive bibliographies in information science and technology are reviewed, and a comparison is made with bibliographies dating back to 1962. Some conclusions are drawn concerning the development and current state of information science.
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Metatheory and information science
Journal of Documentation, 1997Metatheory is described as the analysis of the presuppositions of a field of knowledge or practice. The presuppositions at the basis of the practice of information science are discussed, in particular relation to such concepts as information, knowledge (personal and public), message, message designation, information want and need, query, relevance and ...
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Science and the myth of information
Optical Memory and Neural Networks, 2016In this article, we show the mythical relationship between science and information. Since every substance has a price-tag or price-tags of information which includes all the building blocks in our universe, one can not simply ignore information when dealing with science. We have shown that there is a profound connection between information and entropy,
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Definitions and sciences of information
Information Processing & Management, 1988Abstract This article clarifies the idea of information by dividing the whole range of its definitions into different parts and by identifying several points of misunderstanding. It explores the sciences relating to the concept of information by classifying sciences in terms of their relevance to different ranges of information definitions and by ...
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On the language of information science
ACM SIGIR Forum, 19751. <u>Lavoisier and The Nomenclature of Chemistry.</u> As a science matures, the language used by its practitioners evolves. Hogben (1) describes the evolution of the language of several sciences. Of particular interest is his description of the evolution of the language of chemistry.
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