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Information science

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Information science123 (abbreviated as infosci) is an academic field that is primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of information.4 Practitioners within and outside the field engage in the study of knowledge application and usage in organizations. Additionally, they examine the interaction between people, organizations, and any existing information systems. The objective of this study is to create, replace, improve, or understand the information systems.

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  1. Ibekwe, Fidelia; Aparac-Jelusic, Tatjana; Abadal, Ernest (2019). “The quest for umbrella terms in information science. Tracking the origins of informatology and informatics”. HAL Open Science. 10?: 1–17. ↩

  2. Otten, Klaus; Debons, Anthony (1970). “Towards a metascience of information: Informatology”. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 21: 89–94. doi:10.1002/asi.4630210115. ↩

  3. Ingwersen, Peter. (1992). Information and Information Science in Context Libri, 42(2): 99-135. ↩

  4. Stock, W.G., & Stock, M. (2013). Handbook of Information Science Archived 2023-05-10 at the Wayback Machine. Berlin, Boston, MA: De Gruyter Saur. ↩

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