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Information Science or Informatics is the science of information. It is often, though not exclusively, studied as a branch of computer science and information technology and is related to database, Ontology (computer science) and software engineering engineering. Information science is primarily concerned with the structure, creation, management, storage, Information retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information. Information science also includes studying the application of information in organizations, on its usage and the interaction between people, organizations and information systems. Within information science attention has been given in recent years to human computer interaction (HCI) and to the ways people generate, use and find information. Two definitions of Informatics taught in an introductory class at Indiana University Bloomington are ''"The Art, Science and Human Dimensions of IT"'' and ''"The study, application, and social consequences of technology."'' While an alternative definition of Informatics, given at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh as ''"The study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of natural and engineered computational systems."'', is more widely use in the United Kingdom. It studies the representation, processing, and communication of information in a system, including all computational, cognitive and social aspects. The central notion is the transformation of information - whether by computation or communication, whether by organisms or artifacts. In this sense, it is more or less a merge of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computing science, and related fields. Informatics focuses on understanding problem solving and then applying information technology (and other) technology as needed. In other words, it tackles the problem first rather than technology first, as has been too often done in many areas, such as business and scientific research. ==A note on international terminology== The words ''informatique'' (French), ''Informatik'' (German), and ''informatica'' (Italian), among others, False friend ''informatics''. Rather, they are much closer to computer science. ==See also== * Bioinformatics – Informatics in biology, especially genomics. * Cheminformatics – Informatics in chemistry and drug discovery. * Cognitive psychology - the mind as an information processing system. * Cognitive science - the mind as an information processing system. * Ecoinformatics – Informatics in ecology and environmental science. * Knowledge management – Informatics and knowledge. * Legal informatics - Informatics in the legal field. * Library and information science – Informatics in libraries. * Medical informatics – Informatics in medicine and healthcare. * Neuroinformatics – Informatics in neuroscience. * Hydroinformatics – Informatics as a tool in resolving water-related problems. * Veterinary informatics – Informatics in veterinary medicine. ==External links== *[http://informatics.indiana.edu/overview/what_is_informatics.asp What is Informatics?] *[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/informatics.shtml What does Informatics mean?] *[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/about/vision.html What is Informatics at Edinburgh?] *[http://www.ischool.washington.edu/programs/informatics/overview.aspx University of Washington's Overview of Informatics] *[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Informatician Wikitionary Definition of an Informatician] *[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Informist Wikitionary Definition of an Informist] *[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=7850565 What are the Grand challenges in medical informatics?] Information science Academic disciplines ml:കംപ്യുട്ടര്ശാസ്ത്രം simple:Computer Science th:วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ vi:Tin học zh-cn:计算机科学 zh-tw:計算機科學
Removed the following, which appeared a week ago. I don't believe its a significant event in the history of information science or informatics. If reincluded, it belongs in a more specific article. :"Although courses in Informatics are now available in universities such as in the Informatics department of Buffalo University, the first known educational course was established as long ago as 1983 in an Elementary School in Australia. The teacher there, Mr. Kevin Nicholas, had tremendous future-vision and taught the whole school information handling, even surfing an existing web (London Times Database) before the World Wide Web existed. Kids were exposed to a wide range of activies from information handling, publishing and storage to problem confidence. People visited the school's Informatics Centre from all over Australia and New Zealand, but people are only now catching up with the need to educate children in Informatics." User:Jihg 02:35, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Informatics is synonymous with Information Science? == I do not agree with the equivalence of Informatics and Information Science in general. They might be used syonymously in some contexts, but in my experience they are considered different but related fields. I'm not going to make any edits to the page until I can back up my statements here with some sources to cite, but I wanted to bring this up. I am an "informatics scientist" in a global pharmaceutical company, and the group that utilizes the "information science" skill set is separate with distinct tools, methodologies, and responsibilities. Also, the [http://jis.sagepub.com/ Journal of Information Science] does not purport to cover the realm of "informatics". I understand how others might disagree with the distinction I make here, but it is a matter of evolving terminologies. For instance, about every 5 years, the term "bioinformatics" takes on a slightly different shaded meaning. What I do for a living is better characterized as "biological informatics" than either the general "informatics" or "bioinformatics", in the same sense that "medical informatics" is a disciplinary narrowing if the general "informatics" area. Following from this, I doubt that "medical informatics" could be considered synonymous with a "medical information science" field (which I've not heard of to date). Even more drastic is that, according to a colleague in the UK, former IT departments are re-branding themselves as Informatics departments .. though I have no idea how prevalent this is. Perhaps we can discuss this here at some length, but I really do need to get some time-appropriate information cited here to support my statements here. The reason why I bring up the peer-reviewed journal example, by the way, is that the scope of a journal tends to shift to the generally accepted meaning of the title over time, or the title changes to reflect changed terminology for a scope that the editors wish to retain. Journals evolve at different rates, of course. User:Ceyockey :I agree, for British usage at least. There are three meanings: :# The old usage: a generalisation of "library science", used to be synonymous with information science (e.g. medical informatics). :# The new usage: the study of natural and artificial computational systems, a union of computer science, AI and cognitive science. This is the sense used by bioinformatics, or the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (see link on page). :# The international usage: computer science. :The article kind of covers this, but should to be rewritten to make it more explicit. Personally, I think (2) is now the dominant meaning, but some information scientists may disagree. User:Jihg 08:53, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC) ::It is the first of your meanings that is prevalent in the United States it seems, but broadened to include all manner of indexing and meta-data organization related to the organization and collection of documents, regardless of the topic those documents deal with or the medium they utilize. In the broader sense, it seems that the scope of Knowledge Management (an even fuzzier, more disputed term) sometimes includes information science in the sense I've noted here. :::User:Ceyockey 2005-01-28 USA 22:00 Eastern Standard Time Perhaps we should go so far as to 'demerge' this article and informatics (currently just a redirect here)? At any rate it needs to be clarified to reflect the two senses considerably. User:Alai 07:07, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Information science or informatics is the science of information. It is often, though not exclusively, studied as a branch of computer science and information technology and is related to database, Ontology (computer science) and software engineering engineering. Science Information Academic disciplines Information technology Computer science vi:Category:Tin học
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#REDIRECT Information science
Information science
Information Science or Informatics is the science of information. It is often, though not exclusively, studied as a branch of computer science and information technology and is related to database, Ontology (computer science) and software engineering engineering. Information science is primarily concerned with the structure, creation, management, storage, Information retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information. Information science also includes studying the application of information in organizations, on its usage and the interaction between people, organizations and information systems. Within information science attention has been given in recent years to human computer interaction (HCI) and to the ways people generate, use and find information. Two definitions of Informatics taught in an introductory class at Indiana University Bloomington are ''"The Art, Science and Human Dimensions of IT"'' and ''"The study, application, and social consequences of technology."'' While an alternative definition of Informatics, given at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh as ''"The study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of natural and engineered computational systems."'', is more widely use in the United Kingdom. It studies the representation, processing, and communication of information in a system, including all computational, cognitive and social aspects. The central notion is the transformation of information - whether by computation or communication, whether by organisms or artifacts. In this sense, it is more or less a merge of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computing science, and related fields. Informatics focuses on understanding problem solving and then applying information technology (and other) technology as needed. In other words, it tackles the problem first rather than technology first, as has been too often done in many areas, such as business and scientific research. ==A note on international terminology== The words ''informatique'' (French), ''Informatik'' (German), and ''informatica'' (Italian), among others, False friend ''informatics''. Rather, they are much closer to computer science. ==See also== * Bioinformatics – Informatics in biology, especially genomics. * Cheminformatics – Informatics in chemistry and drug discovery. * Cognitive psychology - the mind as an information processing system. * Cognitive science - the mind as an information processing system. * Ecoinformatics – Informatics in ecology and environmental science. * Knowledge management – Informatics and knowledge. * Legal informatics - Informatics in the legal field. * Library and information science – Informatics in libraries. * Medical informatics – Informatics in medicine and healthcare. * Neuroinformatics – Informatics in neuroscience. * Hydroinformatics – Informatics as a tool in resolving water-related problems. * Veterinary informatics – Informatics in veterinary medicine. ==External links== *[http://informatics.indiana.edu/overview/what_is_informatics.asp What is Informatics?] *[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/informatics.shtml What does Informatics mean?] *[http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/about/vision.html What is Informatics at Edinburgh?] *[http://www.ischool.washington.edu/programs/informatics/overview.aspx University of Washington's Overview of Informatics] *[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Informatician Wikitionary Definition of an Informatician] *[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Informist Wikitionary Definition of an Informist] *[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=7850565 What are the Grand challenges in medical informatics?] Information science Academic disciplines ml:കംപ്യുട്ടര്ശാസ്ത്രം simple:Computer Science th:วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ vi:Tin học zh-cn:计算机科学 zh-tw:計算機科學
Information science
Removed the following, which appeared a week ago. I don't believe its a significant event in the history of information science or informatics. If reincluded, it belongs in a more specific article. :"Although courses in Informatics are now available in universities such as in the Informatics department of Buffalo University, the first known educational course was established as long ago as 1983 in an Elementary School in Australia. The teacher there, Mr. Kevin Nicholas, had tremendous future-vision and taught the whole school information handling, even surfing an existing web (London Times Database) before the World Wide Web existed. Kids were exposed to a wide range of activies from information handling, publishing and storage to problem confidence. People visited the school's Informatics Centre from all over Australia and New Zealand, but people are only now catching up with the need to educate children in Informatics." User:Jihg 02:35, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Informatics is synonymous with Information Science? == I do not agree with the equivalence of Informatics and Information Science in general. They might be used syonymously in some contexts, but in my experience they are considered different but related fields. I'm not going to make any edits to the page until I can back up my statements here with some sources to cite, but I wanted to bring this up. I am an "informatics scientist" in a global pharmaceutical company, and the group that utilizes the "information science" skill set is separate with distinct tools, methodologies, and responsibilities. Also, the [http://jis.sagepub.com/ Journal of Information Science] does not purport to cover the realm of "informatics". I understand how others might disagree with the distinction I make here, but it is a matter of evolving terminologies. For instance, about every 5 years, the term "bioinformatics" takes on a slightly different shaded meaning. What I do for a living is better characterized as "biological informatics" than either the general "informatics" or "bioinformatics", in the same sense that "medical informatics" is a disciplinary narrowing if the general "informatics" area. Following from this, I doubt that "medical informatics" could be considered synonymous with a "medical information science" field (which I've not heard of to date). Even more drastic is that, according to a colleague in the UK, former IT departments are re-branding themselves as Informatics departments .. though I have no idea how prevalent this is. Perhaps we can discuss this here at some length, but I really do need to get some time-appropriate information cited here to support my statements here. The reason why I bring up the peer-reviewed journal example, by the way, is that the scope of a journal tends to shift to the generally accepted meaning of the title over time, or the title changes to reflect changed terminology for a scope that the editors wish to retain. Journals evolve at different rates, of course. User:Ceyockey :I agree, for British usage at least. There are three meanings: :# The old usage: a generalisation of "library science", used to be synonymous with information science (e.g. medical informatics). :# The new usage: the study of natural and artificial computational systems, a union of computer science, AI and cognitive science. This is the sense used by bioinformatics, or the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (see link on page). :# The international usage: computer science. :The article kind of covers this, but should to be rewritten to make it more explicit. Personally, I think (2) is now the dominant meaning, but some information scientists may disagree. User:Jihg 08:53, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC) ::It is the first of your meanings that is prevalent in the United States it seems, but broadened to include all manner of indexing and meta-data organization related to the organization and collection of documents, regardless of the topic those documents deal with or the medium they utilize. In the broader sense, it seems that the scope of Knowledge Management (an even fuzzier, more disputed term) sometimes includes information science in the sense I've noted here. :::User:Ceyockey 2005-01-28 USA 22:00 Eastern Standard Time Perhaps we should go so far as to 'demerge' this article and informatics (currently just a redirect here)? At any rate it needs to be clarified to reflect the two senses considerably. User:Alai 07:07, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Information science
Information science or informatics is the science of information. It is often, though not exclusively, studied as a branch of computer science and information technology and is related to database, Ontology (computer science) and software engineering engineering. Science Information Academic disciplines Information technology Computer science vi:Category:Tin học
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
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