... Generation and dissemination of information Information science and documentation Metatheory Entropy Documentation Artificial intelligence Epistemology Intent Large language models Intentionism The question of what constitutes information has occupied information science and documentation...

... professional obligations in potentially documenting and archiving the critical differences in semiosis that extend beyond purely human knowledge. Semiotics Information science Biology Language Communication Epistemology The role of boundaries in differentiating among academic disciplines...

... 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...

...), 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 (2018) suggested a synthesis...

... 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...

... 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 Library Trends (Floridi, 2002a, 2004). These two papers alone have been cited more than 200 times, and we make no attempt to comment...

... 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...

... literary review and close reading of the concept of warrant in LIS and knowledge organization in order to detect the different stances and gaps in which the concept of epistemic warrant might apply. The authors adopted an epistemological approach, in the vein of some of the previous commenters on warrant...

... 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...

... be contacted at: fulvio.mazzocchi@isc.cnr.it 13 05 2016 13 05 2016 06 09 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 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...

... disregarded philosophical foundations of the library. Both the library as an institution and the science that studies its workings, are critically analyzed and put into an epistemological and even ideological perspective. The original work by Vesa Suominen is explored in detail and its key findings...

... destination” (pp. 146-148), meaning that authority lies in the reader. He writes, “the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture,” the multiplicity of meanings brought together in the act of reading. Search engines Catalogues Epistemology Postmodernism We...

...) that disciplinarity is in some ways a “problematic neologism” as it is often conflated with epistemology, sociology of knowledge and the history of ideas (p. 1). We focus here on the nature, criteria and “possibility conditions of disciplines” (Messer-Davidow et al., 1993, p. 2) and aggregate themes from...

... to respondents leading the exploration of their needs. Information behaviour Phenomenology Epistemology Methodology Social constructivism Action research Participative design This paper provided an opportunity to reflect on research into people's information behaviour and, in turn, to attempt...

...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...

... Epistemology Organisational politics Organisational culture As theory of taxonomy construction in business organisations is underdeveloped (Wyllie, 2005 , pp. 7, 40, 70), attempts to formulate meaningful positivist questions to ask would be likely to result in the generation of irrelevant or isolated...