History and Foundations of Information Science Series

12 primary works • 12 total works
The MIT Press

This series of books focuses on the historical approach or theoretical approach to information science and seeks a broader interpretation of what we consider as information (i.e., information is in the eye of the beholder, be it sets of data, scholarly publications, works of art, material objects, or DNA samples), and an emphasis upon …
Human Information Retrieval
3.38
· 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 5 editions
An overview of information retrieval rooted in the…
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Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia
3.59
· 51 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2010 · 10 editions
How Wikipedia collaboration addresses the challeng…
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Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
3.64
· 33 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 11 editions
Why the card catalog—a "paper machine" with rearra…
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Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way …
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Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data
A critical history of the modern tradition of docu…
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Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses
Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the …
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Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience
A call to redirect the intellectual focus of infor…
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Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription
A historical-conceptual account of the different g…
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The Information Manifold: Why Computers Can't Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News
An argument that information exists at different l…
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The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications
An exploration of infographics and data visualizat…
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The Typographic Medium
4.60
· 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
An innovative examination of typography as a mediu…
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Power of Position: Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking …
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