information science

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information sciences
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A broad and interdisciplinary science that deals with the gathering, classification, storage, manipulation, retrieval and analysis of information as an organized resource
{i} (Computers) science that deals with the collection and classification and storing of recorded information and knowledge and its uses
the sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information
The science that is concerned with the gathering, manipulation, classification, storage, and retrieval of recorded knowledge. the science of collecting, arranging, storing, and sending out information. Discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring information. It attempts to bring together concepts and methods from such varied disciplines as library science, computer science and engineering, linguistics, and psychology to develop techniques and devices to aid in the handling of information. In its early stages in the 1960s, information science was concerned primarily with applying the then-new computer technology to the processing and managing of documents. The applied computer technologies and theoretical studies of information science have since permeated many other disciplines. Computer science and engineering still tend to absorb its theory-and technology-oriented subjects, and management science tends to absorb information-systems subjects

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