Information+Science

=**Information Science (N=1)**=


 * Definition:** (can be defined as) that set of principles and prescriptive rules dealing with the organization, maintenance, and management of bodies of scientific, technical, and business information used in decision-making. It is concerned with improving the communication of recorder information among three types of individuals or groups: 1. the originator of information; 2. the processor of information; 3. the user of information. Thus information science must be an organizaed body of knowledge based on explanatory principles which seek to discover and formulate in general terms the condition under which facts and events relating to the generation, transmission, and use of information occur.
 * Source:** Konoshima S. Information science: interfaces with knowledge generation-utilization. In: Beal GM, Dissanayake W, Konoshima S, editors. Knowledge generation, exchange and utilization. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1986: 187-300.
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