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ON HERITAGE AND THE
INFORMATION DISCIPLINES
By
Marcia J. Bates
Professor Emerita
Department of Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1520
1-310-206-9353; 1-310-825-8799
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2009
Dubrovnik, Croatia
May 26, 2009
Bates, M. J., & Maack, M. N. (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Sciences, 3rd Ed.,
New York: Taylor & Francis, 2009
Information:
The pattern of organization
of matter and energy.
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Information is not “everything”
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Information is the
pattern of organization of everything
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Encoded information is information that has symbolic,
linguistic, and/or signal-based patterns of organization.
Embodied information is the corporeal expression or
manifestation of information previously in encoded form.
Human beings have information encoded
in the neural apparatus of their brains, and
have information embodied in Experienced
information, Enacted information, and
Expressed information.
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Experienced information: The pattern of organization
of subjective experience; the feeling of being in life.
Enacted information: The pattern of organization
of actions of an animal in, and interacting with its
environment, utilizing capabilities and experience
from its neural stores.
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Expressed information: The pattern of organization of
communicatory calls, scents, gestures, and, ultimately,
human spoken language used to communicate among
members of a species and between species.
Susantha Goonatilake’s Information Flow
Lineages:
• Genetic
• Neural-cultural
• Exosomatic
Goonatilake, S. (1991). The Evolution of Information:
Lineages in Gene, Culture, and Artefact. London; New York:
Pinter.
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Recorded information: Communicatory
or memorial information preserved in a
durable medium.
Embedded information: The pattern of
organization of the enduring effects of the
presence of animals on the earth; may be
incidental, as a path through the woods, or
deliberate, as a fashioned tool or structure.
A fourth lineage, Residue, carries
Trace information: The pattern
of organization of the residue that
is incidental to living processes or
which remain after living processes
are finished with it.
Bates, M. J., 2006. Fundamental
Forms of information. Journal of the
American Society for Information
Science and Technology.
(57)8, 1033-1045.
Is an antelope a document??
Briet, S. (1951). Qu’est-ce que la
documentation? (In translation)
Retrieved 28 April 2009 from
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~roday/
what%20is%20documentation.pdf
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Libraries and archives collect documents
(recorded information)
Museums collect art, artifacts, and nonliving specimens (embedded information)
Zoos, aquariums, arboretums, and
gardens collect and maintain live specimens
(genetic information as phenotypes)
Collections disciplines collect objects
from out of the stream of life, and place
them in a special designated place where
access to the objects can be provided for
social purposes.
Disciplines in the Encyclopedia of
Library and Information Sciences,
3rd Ed.
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Library and information science
Archival science
Museum studies
Knowledge management
Records management
Informatics
Information systems
Bibliography
Document and genre theory
Social studies of information