information science
51Information Awareness Office — seal The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and …
52Information for Social Change — (ISC) is an international, volunteer based association, whose primary mission is to debate and comment on issues of social justice, censorship, freedom and ethics in the library and information context. Information for Social Change can be… …
53Information processing — is the change (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process which describes everything which happens (changes) in the universe, from the falling of a rock (a change in position) to the printing of a …
54Information annealing — or knowledge annealing, in library and information science, is a network based information system or body of knowledge in which all users of the system are permitted to change the system at will. Over time, the system is said to become better… …
55geographic information science — noun The scientific study of the nature and use of geographic information; the theoretical foundation of geographic information systems …
56library and information science — noun Library science …
57Archetype (information science) — In the field of informatics, an archetype is a formal re usable model of a domain concept. Traditionally, the term archetype is used in psychology to mean an idealized model of a person, personality or behaviour (see Archetype ). The usage of the …
58Information theory — Not to be confused with Information science. Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental… …
59Information retrieval — This article is about information retrieval in general. For the fictional government department, see Brazil (film). Information retrieval (IR) is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for… …
60information processing — Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer based operations. Information processing consists of locating and capturing information, using software to… …
