... and archiving the critical differences in semiosis that extend beyond purely human knowledge. Semiotics Information science Biology Language Communication Epistemology Alrøe (2016) proposed 3 levels of semiosis: Level 0 consists of semiosis in the form of physical or causal processes...

... constructed. Inattention to sources (a lack of bibliographical imagination) produces representational anomalies. Certain sources are privileged when they should not be and others are ignored or considered as sub-standard. Overall, the epistemological boundaries of the article in terms of what...

...Simon Burnett; Annemaree Lloyd Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of Dark Knowledge, an epistemology that acknowledges both alternative knowledge and ways of knowing which are cognizant of the moral and ethical positioning of each. Design/methodology/approach...

... Information science and documentation Documentation Theory Documents Epistemology Indexing What do documents tell us about humanity in the twenty-first century? Since 1900, document production has increased significantly, with a variety of new formats, the advent of mass media...

... ( Forster, 2017b ). What research contexts and methods are likely to be most effective, especially in workplaces which contain professions of widely differing ontologies and epistemological realities? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach An analysis and description...

... and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Cognition Information science Theory Documents Epistemology Information research Gnoli...

... the cognitive approach and the sociological approach, if taken in isolation, prove to be cases of philosophical monism as they emphasize a single level over the others. On the other hand, each of them can be considered as a component of a pluralist ontology and epistemology, where individual minds and social...

... of information in PI, which he associated with that used in computing, was too narrow and uniform for the library tradition. The idea was developed by Floridi in a 2002 paper in Social Epistemology (SE), and revisited two years later in a response to series of critiques in a special issue...

... semiotic. Hence, from there, certain ontological conditions as well epistemological consequences of the information concept can be deduced. Findings The paper argues that an understanding of information, as either objective or subjective/discursive, leads to either objective reductionism and signal...

...Daniel Martínez-Ávila; John M. Budd 24 10 2016 30 01 2017 31 01 2017 There are some authors and critics in the literature that have voiced for a more epistemological approach to warrant (in opposition to a predominantly ontological approach). In this sense, epistemic...

... is to clarify this issue. Design/methodology/approach The discussion unfolds in the form of a philosophical dialogue between the Epistemologist, who represents the traditional and majority epistemological viewpoint of information science, and the Aestheticist, representing the emerging paradigm...

... the representation of a series of subsequent genus-species links through a hierarchical tree structure can be traced back to the Tree of Porphyry (see Figure 1). Figure 1 The Tree of Porphyry Information retrieval Semantics Controlled languages Knowledge organizations Epistemology Thesaurus...

...John Buschman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore an approach to epistemology which allows a portion of library and information science (LIS) to coherently explain its social and intellectual contributions, and to overcome some of the problems of epistemology that LIS encounters...

... on the philosophical aspects of libraries and library science is scarce. Through this review we try to kindle a discussion that involves the basic mission statement of the modern library. Librarians Politics Library users Value analysis Philosophy Educational institutions Epistemology Information industry...

... might run the risk of interpretive errors due to the possible imposition of epistemologies of different cultures in the analysis. Foucault, when wondering how one characterizes a discourse containing the author function or in what way this discourse is different from other discourses, preceded his...

..., administrators, and others interested in defining, constructing, and evaluating disciplines. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Publishing Epistemology Documentation The Oxford English Dictionary traces the etymology of “discipline” as the antithesis of “doctrine.” Discipline...

... to respondents leading the exploration of their needs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Information behaviour Phenomenology Epistemology Methodology Social constructivism Action research Participative design This paper provided an opportunity to reflect on research into people's...

...Jirí Tomáš Stodola Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the functionality of the particular epistemological schools with regard to the issues of users with visual impairment, to offer a theoretical answer to the question why these issues are not in the center of the interest...

... frameworks appear to have been developed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Subjectivity Classification Information science Taxonomies Knowledge organisation Sociology of science Epistemology Organisational politics Organisational culture This paper describes an experiment...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Classification Epistemology Late-modernity Modernity Philosophical concepts Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: Journal of Documentation, Volume 69, Issue 1 The following article was selected...