information science
Noun
Meaning
the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
It is essential to stress that information science is not solely concerned with science information, nor indeed only with the provision of information to academic and professional workers, but with all forms of information transfer in society.
Perhaps an underlying cause [of doubt as to the future of information science] is in some cases... the apprehension that information science may become "submerged” in the larger field of computer science.
Information science is identified as... the study of the communication of information in society. This meaning is only beginning to emerge from its practical background, the social activity of facilitating information transfer.
The principles of information science apply, whatever the medium of transfer.
Theoretical research in information science is still marked by a tendency to play safe... it is still marked by timidity. It could now afford to be more boldly speculative, intellectually exciting and therefore more attractive to intelligent and ambitious students.