Fifty years of UK research in information science

Meadows, A. J.

doi:10.1177/0165551508089718

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“…Aslib was therefore recognized for much of this period as the de facto national centre for research in documentation and information science. Meadows (2008, p.11) notes that ‘for three decades from 1955 onwards, the Aslib Research and Consultancy department was a major contributor to the development of research in the subject both nationally and internationally. Its main interests lay in the evaluation of operations, user studies and automation, and a number of the research projects carried out were of long-term interest … The final closure of the department by Aslib was therefore a blow to UK research’.…”

Section: Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aslib

Bawden

2016

Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library a

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The history of Aslib, an independent library/information membership organization in the United Kingdom between 1924 and 2014, is outlined, with emphasis on the ways in which Aslib acted as a de facto national centre for special librarianship and information work, for documentation, and for technical and commercial information. Its activities in this respect included publishing, training and professional development, research and consultancy, and the maintenance of national collections and indexes. Aslib was also an official national centre for several purposes, generally associated with information retrieval and dissemination.

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Aslib

Bawden

2016

Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library a

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“…Much of the ground covered in their paper was the subject of a special issue of the Journal of Information Science to mark the fiftieth anniversary in 2008 of the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists. However Robinson and Bawden only cite Bawden’s paper [2] in this special issue and not the equally significant contributions by Meadows [3], Mahon [4], Dextre Clark [5] and Garfield [6]. The paper by Meadows is especially important as it covers a number of the topics in the paper by Robinson and Bawden in more detail and offers some different perspectives.…”

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“…We do not understand this statement, which seems to be at odds with a summary of the work of Cleverdon compiled by Keen [13]. We would suggest that the value of the Cranfield Conferences was that they bridged the disciplines of information retrieval and library classification and had a worldwide impact on the development of information retrieval research, not least in the development of the concepts of recall and precision [3].…”

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“…Nevertheless one of the three aims of BLR&DD was to fund research supporting the benefits of the information community at large, in addition to providing research related to the development of the British Library and wider national/international planning. Between them, OSTI and BLR&DD were enormously influential in developing information science research, and information science researchers in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s [3]. The paper notes the tradition in the UK of what might be termed applied information science.…”

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In response to: ‘“So wide and varied”: The origins and character of British information science’

White¹,

Oppenheim

2014

Journal of Information Science

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This letter provides some additional perspectives on the development of British information science. The authors have been personally involved in the discipline since the early 1970s and have had the privilege of knowing many of the pioneers in information science research and exploitation. The opportunity is taken add some personal perspectives to the paper and add further references to the bibliography.

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“…Of the three ideas, the relevance is most complex due to its inherent subjectivity (Meadows 2008). A detailed account of the literature on relevance can be found in (Mizzaro 1997).…”

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On Challenges and Opportunities of Designing Integrated IT Platforms for Supporting Knowledge Works in Organizations

Laha¹

2011

Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers

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Designing and implementing comprehensive IT-based support environments for KM in organizations is fraught with many problems. Solving them requires intimate knowledge about the information usage in knowledge works and the scopes of technology intervention. In this paper, the Task-oriented Organizational Knowledge Management or TOKM, a design theory for building integrated IT platforms for supporting organizational KM, is proposed. TOKM brings together two apparently mutually exclusive practices of building KM systems, the task-based approach and the generic or universalistic approach. In developing the design, the information requirements of knowledge workers in light of an information usage model of knowledge works is studied. Then the model is extended to study possibilities of more advanced IT support and formulate them in form of a set of meta-requirements. Following the IS design theory paradigm, a set of artifacts are hypothesized to meet the requirements. Finally, a design method, as a possible approach of building an IT-based integrated platform, the Knowledge Work Support Platform (KWSP) to realize the artifacts in order to meet the requirements, is outlined. The KWSP is a powerful platform for building and maintaining a number of task-type specific Knowledge Work Support Systems (KWSS) on a common sharable platform. Each KWSS, for the task-type supported by it, can be easily designed to provide extensive and sophisticated support to individual as well as group of knowledge workers in performing their respective knowledge work instances. PRELIMINARIESThe theory, TOKM, deals at its core with the issues related to information usage in knowledge works, i.e., how does human knowledge workers use information and how the related processes can be supported effectively by technology interventions. The concepts I shall build upon, though might have originated in myriads of disciplines, I shall mostly draw upon them as available through the literature of the three fields of studies related in different ways to information, namely the information systems, the information science and the information technology. Readers interested in deeper exploration of the concepts/issues can use the "references" sections of the referred articles to further their quest. Handling InformationAll the three fields, information system, information science and information technology have "information" as their central themes. Nevertheless, despite significant overlaps, each of these fields has its own distinct perspective, goal and even lexicon, which render subtle but significantly different semantic to same or similar terms. In the following we shall discuss various aspects of each of them relevant to our discourse.

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Fifty years of UK research in information science

Cited by 17 publications

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In response to: ‘“So wide and varied”: The origins and character of British information science’

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