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Hider, Philip – Education for Information, 2018
The intellectual origins of information organization (IO) as a field of study are examined by tracing the use of the terms, "information organization", "knowledge organization", "bibliographic control", and their variants, and by surveying the educational texts dealing with the various component activities of IO,…
Descriptors: Information Management, Library Science, Information Science, Library Education
Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana L.; Chelliah, Shobhana L.; Phillips, Mark E. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
Language archives, like other scholarly digital repositories, are built with two major audiences in mind. These are depositors of language data and various potential end-users of these materials: researchers (linguistics and others), language communities, students, educators, artists, etc. Being a relatively new phenomenon, language archives have…
Descriptors: Archives, Documentation, Language Research, Users (Information)
Bates, Marcia – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: Along with leading to growth in the numbers of people doing information work, the increasing role of information in our contemporary society has led to an explosion of new information professions as well. The labels for these fields can be confusing and overlapping, and what does and does not constitute an information profession has…
Descriptors: Information Science, Libraries, Librarians, Intellectual Disciplines
Stake, Robert E. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
Responsive evaluation builds upon the methods of informal evaluation in disciplined ways: getting personally acquainted with the evaluand, observation of activities, interviewing people who are in different ways familiar with the evaluand, searching documents that reveal what happened in the past or somewhere else. It calls for sustained effort to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods, Information Science, Observation
Hackney, S. E.; Handel, Dinah; Hezekiah, Bianca; Hochman, Jessica; Lau, Amy; Sula, Chris Alen – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper is based on statistical and qualitative analysis of library and information science (LIS) literature. Our study asks the question of whether, and if so, how, and how often, the discourse generated by scholarly literature in LIS engages discussion about identity in LIS, what topics are covered, and whether the articles engage praxis, or…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Professional Identity, Visualization, Library Science
Cronin, Blaise – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
In this short paper, avowedly personal, partial and pointillist in nature, I (i) sketch the early days of (mainly Anglo-American) information studies and the field's gradual institutionalization, (ii) describe its maturation, as both an academic discipline and a domain of professional practice, and (iii) speculate on its future in the light of oft…
Descriptors: Information Science, Library Science, Archives, Documentation
Yearous, Sharon Kay Guthrie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The independent, complex role of a school nurse requires accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, and outcomes. Consistent documentation by all school nurses is crucial to study the impact of nursing interventions on children's health and success in school. While standardized nursing languages are available, the actual use of…
Descriptors: Nursing, School Nurses, Documentation, Vocabulary
The Effects of Beacons, Comments, and Tasks on Program Comprehension Process in Software Maintenance
Fan, Quyin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Program comprehension is the most important and frequent process in software maintenance. Extensive research has found that individual characteristics of programmers, differences of computer programs, and differences of task-driven motivations are the major factors that affect the program comprehension results. There is no study specifically…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Maintenance, Programming, Employees
Orey, Michael, Ed.; Jones, Stephanie A., Ed.; Branch, Robert Maribe, Ed. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2014
As digital devices play a more critical role in daily life than ever, more opportunities arise for innovative learning technologies--a trend on full display in the "Educational Media and Technology Yearbook" for 2013. This latest edition from the Association for Education, Communication, and Technology (AECT) notes the most current…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Budgeting, Costs
Wrenn, Jesse – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In order to ease the burden of electronic note entry on physicians, electronic documentation support tools have been developed to assist in note authoring. There is little evidence of the effects of these tools on attributes of clinical documentation, including document quality. Furthermore, the resultant abundance of duplicated text and…
Descriptors: Physicians, Documentation, Computation, Redundancy
Vitinš, Maris; Rasnacs, Oskars – Informatics in Education, 2012
Information and communications technologies today are used in virtually any university course when students prepare their papers. ICT is also needed after people are graduated from university and enter the job market. This author is an instructor in the field of informatics related to health care and social sciences at the Riga Stradins…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Assignments, Information Science, Data Processing

Brookes, B. C. – Journal of Documentation, 1974
Redefines the scope of information science as the analysis, organization, dissemination, and application of objective knowledge. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Documentation, Information Science
McCarthy, Gavan; Evans, Joanne – Journal of Archival Organization, 2007
This article examines the evolution of a national register of the archives of science and technology in Australia and the related development of an archival informatics focused initially on people and their relationships to archival materials. The register was created in 1985 as an in-house tool for the Australian Science Archives Project of the…
Descriptors: Archives, Foreign Countries, Information Science, Information Management
Yovits, M. C. – Amer Doc, 1969
Descriptors: Documentation, Information Science, Information Systems, Models

Hjorland, Birger – Journal of Documentation, 2000
Considers the meanings of the terms document, documentation, information, information retrieval, and information science. Discusses the theoretical orientations of the discipline and how they are linked to epistemological assumptions, as well as the concept of memory institutions. (Contains 38 references.) (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Documentation, Epistemology, Information Retrieval, Information Science