Zen of Information

Shannon and Weaver (S&W) presented an engineering solution to an information problem with something that would eventually be known as in...

Living organisms are consumers of information, indicating the importance of asking basic questions about human consumption of information. B...

Information systems can be said to have three major components: technology, information, and the user base. The last Century brought up seve...

Documents may include narratives, arguments, sections, and multiple other semantic components that make up an interrelated network of concep...

Categorization of information, and the use of categories as a form of surrogates of objects appeared in early history. Documents of one type...

An information space is defined by a set or collection of documents. A list of terms is built to represent the information elements in the i...

Adherence to a standardized scheme of categorization is widely recognized and accepted as valid and useful to facilitate information managem...