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What
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building blocks?
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Knowledge Map of Information
Science
In 2003-2005 Dr.
Zins conducted a mapping study, "Knowledge Map of Information
Science", which was supported by a research grant from the Israel
Science Foundation (an organ of the Israel Academy of Science
and Humanities). This was a Critical Delphi study with an
interdisciplinary panel composed of 57 leading scholars from 16
countries.
The panel. The
following scholars participated in the panel: Dr. Hanne Albrechtsen,
Institute of Knowledge Sharing, Denmark; Prof. Elsa Barber,
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Prof.
Dr. Aldo de Albuquerque Barreto, Ministry of Science
& Technology; Brazilian Institute for Information in
Science and Technology, Brazil; Prof. Shifra
Baruchson–Arbib, Bar Ilan University,
Israel; Prof. Clare Beghtol,
University of Toronto, Canada; Prof.
Maria Teresa Biagetti, University of Rome
1, Italy; Prof. Michael Buckland,
University of California, Berkeley, USA; Manfred Bundschuh,
University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany; Dr.
Quentin L. Burrell, Isle of Man
International Business School, Isle of Man; Dr. Paola Capitani,
Working Group Semantic Web, Italy; Prof.
Rafael Capurro, University of
Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany; Prof. Thomas A.
Childers, Drexel University,
USA; Prof. Charles H. Davis,
Indiana University; the University of Illinois, USA; Prof.
Anthony Debons, University of
Pittsburgh, USA; Prof.
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen
University, Sweden; Prof. Henri Dou,
University of Aix-Marseille III, France; Prof. Nicolae
Dragulanescu, Polytechnics
University of Bucharest, Romania; Prof. Carl Drott,
Drexel University, USA; Prof. Luciana Duranti,
University of British Columbia, Canada; Prof. Hamid Ekbia,
University of Redlands, USA; Prof. Charles Ess,
Drury University, USA; Prof. Raya Fidel,
University of Washington, USA; Prof. Thomas J.
Froehlich, Kent State
University, USA; Alan Gilchrist, Cura
Consortium and TFPL, UK; Dr. H.M. Gladney, HMG
Consulting, USA; Prof. Glynn Harmon,
University of Texas at Austin, USA; Dr. Donald Hawkins,
Information Today, USA; Prof. Caroline
Haythornthwaite, University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA; Ken Herold,
Hamilton College, USA; Prof. William Hersh,
Oregon Health & Science University, USA; Prof.
Birger Hjorland, Royal School of
Library and Information Science, Denmark; Sarah Holmes*, the
Publishing Project, USA. Prof. Ian Johnson*, the
Robert Gordon University, UK; Prof. Wallace Koehler,
Valdosta State University, USA; Prof.
Donald Kraft, Louisiana State
University, USA; Prof. Yves
François Le Coadic, National Technical
University, France; Dr. Jo Link-Pezet,
Urfist, and University of Social Sciences, France; Michal
Lorenz, Masaryk University
in Brno, Czech Republic; Prof. Ia McIlwaine,
University College London, UK; Prof. Michel J. Menou,
Knowledge and ICT management consultant, France; Prof.
Haidar Moukdad, Dalhousie
University, Canada; Dennis Nicholson,
Strathclyde University, UK; Prof. Charles Oppenheim,
Loughborough University, UK; Prof. Lena Vania
Pinheiro, Brazilian Institute
for Information in Science and Technology, Brazil; Prof.
Maria Pinto, University of
Granada, Spain; Prof. Roberto Poli,
University of Trento, Italy; Prof. Ronald Rousseau,
KHBO, and University of Antwerp, Belgium; Dr. Silvia
Schenkolewski–Kroll, Bar Ilan University,
Israel; Scott Seaman*,
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Prof. Richard Smiraglia, Long
Island University, USA; Prof. Paul Sturges,
Loughborough University, UK; Prof. Carol Tenopir,
University of Tennessee, USA; Dr. Joanne Twining,
Intertwining.org, a virtual information consultancy, USA; Prof.
Anna da Soledade Vieira, Federal University
of Minas Gerais, Brazil; Dr. Julian Warner,
Queen's University of Belfast, UK; Prof. Irene Wormell,
Swedish School of Library and Information Science in Borås,
Sweden; Prof. Yishan Wu,
Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC),
China.
* An observer (i.e.,
those panel members who did not strictly meet the criteria for the
panel selection and terms of participation.)
The study
was presented at the ASIST (American Society for Information
Science & Technology) 2005
Annual Meeting, and at the Ninth ISKO
(International Society for Knowledge Organization) Conference
in Vienna, 2006. Four articles resulted from the study:
1. Zins, C., (2007).Conceptual approaches for
defining "Data", "Information", and "Knowledge". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science (JASIST), 58 (4). pp. 479-493.
2. Zins, C., (2007). Conceptions of Information
Science Journal
of the American Society for Information Science (JASIST), 58
(3), pp. 335-350.
3. Zins, C., (2007). Classification Schemes of
Information Science: 28 Scholars Map the Field Journal
of the American Society for Information Science (JASIST), 58.
4. Zins, C., (2007) Knowledge Map of
Information Science. Journal of the American Society
for Information Science (JASIST), 58 (4), pp. 526-535.
In addition, 11 scholars reflected on the implications of the study for
future of the field. The article was published in the Brazilian Journal
of Information Science:
Zins, C., Debons, A., Beghtol, C.,
Buckland, M., Davis, C.H., Dodig-Crnkovic, G., Dragulanescu, N., Harmon, G., Kraft, D.H., Poli,
R., and Smiraglia, R.P. (2007). Knowledge
Map of Information Science: Implications for the Future of the
Field. Brazilian Journal of Information Science (BJIS), 1
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