Library Trends articles from January 2004

Library Trends archives from January 2004

Introduction.
January 1, 2004... LUCIANO FLORIDI'S 1999 MONOGRAPH, Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction, provided the impetus for the theme of this issue, more for what it did not say about librarianship and information studies (LIS) than otherwise. Following the...

Information and its philosophy.
January 1, 2004... THREE PROBLEMS IN RELATION TO Luciano Floridi's work on the Philosophy of Information (PI) and the relationship of PI to Library and Information Science (LIS) are considered: the claim that LIS is a materials-based discipline, Floridi's claim...

Documentation redux: prolegomenon to (another) philosophy of information.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT A PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION IS GROUNDED in a philosophy of documentation. Nunberg's conception of the phenomenon of information heralds a shift of attention away from the question "What is information?" toward a critical...

Community as event (1).
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Concepts and technologies of information and communication are discussed in the context of political philosophy and ontology. The questions of what is the meaning and sense of "information" and "communication" in modern...

Information studies without information.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT IN PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, the phenomena fundamental to human communication are routinely modeled in ways that do not require commitment to a concept of "information" separate from those of "data," "meaning," "communication,"...

Relevance: language, semantics, philosophy.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT THE LITERATURE WITHIN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (LIS) on relevance comes primarily from the subfields of information retrieval and information systems design. This literature has developed over time from an orthodoxy that...

On verifying the accuracy of information: philosophical perspectives.
January 1, 2004... The sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. --George Gurdjieff Trust but verify. --Ronald Reagan ABSTRACT HOW CAN ONE VERIFY THE ACCURACY OF RECORDED INFORMATION (e.g., information found in...

Arguments for philosophical realism in library and information science.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT THE BASIC: REALIST CLAIM IS THAT A MIND-INDEPENDENT reality exists. It should be common sense knowledge to accept this claim, just as any theories that try to deny it soon become inconsistent because reality strikes back. In...

Knowledge profiling: the basis for knowledge organization.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT HOW ARE WE ABLE TO CONSTRUCT TRULY REALISTIC representations of knowledge organizations (KOs)? The paper introduces and defines the knowledge profile as a method to investigate the epistemological basis of any KO to outline the...

Classification and categorization: a difference that makes a difference.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT EXAMINATION OF THE SYSTEMIC PROPERTIES AND FORMS of interaction that characterize classification and categorization reveals fundamental syntactic differences between the structure of classification systems and the structure of...

Faceted classification and logical division in information retrieval.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT THE MAIN OBJECT Or THE PAPER is to demonstrate in detail the role of classification in information retrieval (IR) and the design of classificatory structures by the application of logical division to all forms of the content of...

The epistemological foundations of knowledge representations.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT THIS PAPER LOOKS AT THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS of knowledge representations embodied in retrieval languages. It considers questions such as the validity of knowledge representations and their effectiveness for the purposes...

Classification, rhetoric, and the classificatory horizon.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT BIBLIOGRAPHY PROVIDES A COMPELLING VANTAGE from which to study the interconnection of classification, rhetoric, and the making of knowledge. Bibliography, and the related activities of classification and retrieval, bears a...

The ubiquitous hierarchy: an army to overcome the threat of a mob.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE CONNECTIONS between Melvil Dewey and Hegelianism and Charles Cutter and the Scottish Common Sense philosophers. It traces the practice of hierarchy from these philosophical influences to Dewey and...

A human information behavior approach to a philosophy of information.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT THIS PAPER OUTLINES THE RELATION between philosophy of information (PI) and human information behavior (HIB). In this paper, we first briefly outline the basic constructs and approaches of PI and HIB. We argue that a strong...

Cybersemiotics and the problems of the information-processing paradigm as a candidate for a unified science of information behind library information science (1).
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT AS AN ANSWER TO THE HUMANISTIC, SOCIALLY ORIENTED CRITIQUE of the information-processing paradigms used as a conceptual frame for library information science, this article formulates a broader and less objective concept of...

Afterword LIS as applied philosophy of information: a reappraisal.(library infirnmation science)
January 1, 2004... LIBRARY INFORMATION SCIENCE (LIS) should develop its foundation in terms of a philosophy of information (PI). This seems a rather harmless suggestion. Where else could information science look for its conceptual foundations if not in PI?...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... Erratum: The author affiliation lot Adrienne Franco in Library Trends vol. 52, no. 2 incorrectly listed the Iona College location as "New Rochester." The location is New Rochelle.