Organising knowledge: an introduction to information retrieval
Organising knowledge: an introduction to information retrieval
Information systems in management (4th ed.)
Information systems in management (4th ed.)
IBM dictionary of computing
Post-Capitalist Society
Dictionary of Information Technology and Computer Science
Dictionary of Information Technology and Computer Science
Managing Information
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
Information Technology: An Introduction
Information Technology: An Introduction
Strategic Planning for Information Systems
Strategic Planning for Information Systems
Human-Computer Interaction
Business Information Systems; Analysis, Design, and Practice
Business Information Systems; Analysis, Design, and Practice
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The wisdom hierarchy: representations of the DIKW hierarchy
Journal of Information Science
Knowledge versus content in e-learning: A philosophical discussion
Information Systems Frontiers
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Information is integral to our experience of the world and to personal, social and organisational functioning. This article provides a review of the different perspectives on the nature of information that can be drawn respectively, from the literatures of communication theory, library and information science, information systems, computer science, other professional disciplines, cognitive science, organisation science, and policy making. Five definitions of information are identified: information as subjective knowledge, information as useful data or as a thing, information as a resource, information as a commodity, and information as a constitutive force in society. Attempts to integrate these perspective on information must take into account the context of information processing. Individuals, organisations and societies are concerned with the role that information can play in processes such as decision making, learning or innovation, whereas information professionals and information systems designers, the professionals concerned with information, need to be able to impose structure on information in order to gather it into their systems, and therefore need to treat information as an object and to create a systems view of information.