Information Science

By martina

  • Study of information needs and use

  • First and simple algorithm

    1940 - 1950

  • Hans Peter Luhn

    prodigious inventor with a broad range of patents joined IBM

  • As we may think

    Vannevar Bush, information science

  • National Science Foundation Act

    National Science Foundation Act provided a numbers of mandates

  • Boolean algebra

  • Mortimer Taube

    Mortimer Taube founded a company named Documentation Inc.

  • Cranfield tests

    Cleverdon conducted a series of IR test under the name Cranfield tests (1950 - 1970)

  • Bibliometric studies

  • All - Union Scientific and Technical Information Institute

    All - Union Scientific and Technical Information Institute establishment impetus

  • National Defense Education Act

    National Defense Education Act enlarged the mandate

  • International Conference on Scientific Information

  • KWIC

    KWIC - Key Words In Context, mentioned at the International Conference on Scientific Information

  • Information Science

  • Computer science

  • IR

    defined modern IR

  • Scientometrics

  • Eugene Garfield

    Eugene Garfield - established Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

  • Journal Impact Factor

  • National Science Foundation

    National Science Foundation established a model of IR system (1961 - 1966)

  • Science Citation Index

  • Book "Libraries of the Future"

  • The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

    The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (1966 - 1978)

  • Medline and Dialog

    1968 - 1970

  • Nicholas Belkin

    ASK - anomalous state of knowledge

  • OPACs

    OPACs were prominent as an area cluster (1971 - 1995)

  • Author co-citation analysis

    Author co-citation analysis mapping information science (1972 - 1995)

  • Information need

  • C. C. Kuhlthau

    model and theory - Information Search Model

  • Web

    rapid growth of Web

  • Task oriented information seeking studies

  • Infometrics

  • Digital libraries

  • Webometrics

  • TREC

    TREC - Text REtrieval Conference

  • Similar analysis

    1996 - 2005

  • Web age

    1996 - 2006

  • information behavior research

  • E-metrics

  • H-index

  • Information Scools

  • Two worlds

    Two worlds : pragmatic and academic