interpretation, to illustrate the special role of information in the knowledge acquisition process. Design … the corresponding redrawing of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) pyramid. The knowledge acquisition process is … symbolically represented by the growth of a “tree of knowledge” which is planted on a “data earth,” filled with “information sap …

meaning, and “document” as the combined product of information and media; it defines “knowledge” as one type of meaning and … framework for LIS and has clarified the hitherto rather confusing relationship between data, information, and knowledge, and the …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to redefine information and other associated library and information science …

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore how trustworthy knowledge claims in Wikipedia are constructed by focusing … external sources for the stabilisation of knowledge in Wikipedia. Design/methodology/approach – The study is inspired by online … knowledge construction in which the already published is being recycled. The references to external sources anchor the …

Although the information needs of women receiving antenatal and postnatal care are well understood, few studies have … examined the use of information by minority ethnic women. This paper describes a pilot study that aimed to identify the main … maternity information sources used by Somali women living in a northern city in the UK. The study described here utilised …

This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Internet information on smoking cessation using a cross‐sectional survey … design. The characteristics and content of 89 Web sites containing smoking cessation information were evaluated. The quality … of these sites were measured by the information quality tool (IQT), quality scale (QS) and DISCERN. The most widely …

addressed to a large film archive this study analyses what types of information needs real users have and how these needs are … expressed. The findings include that the requesters make use of a broad range of need attributes in specifying their information … much as 43 per cent of the requests contain no information about the context that gives rise to the request. The current …

underexplored aspect of his career is a lifelong interest in scientific communication, documentation and information science …. Utilising records in the Bernal archive in Cambridge, UK, this paper assesses Bernal's information career. It explores Bernal …‐1949, as figurehead of a co‐ordinated but unsuccessful left‐wing campaign to establish an Institute of Scientific Information …

Information seeking does not occur in a vacuum but invariably is motivated by some wider task. It is well accepted that … to understand information seeking we must understand the task context within which it takes place. Writing is amongst the … most common tasks within which information seeking is embedded. This paper considers how writing can be understood in order …