SIGIA-L Mail Archives: [Sigia-l] Serious Discussion of IA Research?
[Sigia-l] Serious Discussion of IA Research?
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Perhaps Information needs to be considered a type of etherial substance. After all, it takes energy and binding-power to move the stuff through space and time.
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But again I ramble, groping for a science behind information phenomena, and should be ignored.
--Ed
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There seem to be philosophical differences between people in the list regarding the usefulness and place of research, but surely research can be boiled down to having a question and recording the outcome an event with sufficient skill to facilitate communication with others so that others may learn (and hopefully conduct their own research). I accept that some of us are just not curious enough to ask questions but isn't doing so a vital ingredient of progress? Does IA have questions or curious people?
Is there a taxonomy or glossary for IA, an accepted framework for IA, an 'iconic tome' that people reference, an intellectual agenda for moving IA forward? As limited - or constraining - as these items are, their use has been a consistent basis for technological progress in the past.
I think that there is some value in using physical metaphors for some of the intangible stuff that IA plays with. "Information: The new language of Science" ISBN 0297607251 is the best attempt I have read in this regard. The application of the physical laws of quantum physics to information and knowledge is refreshing. What do others reach for?
Adam Tucker
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