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Definitions

> Defining the subject

The Academic Heritage of Library and Information Science: Resources and Opportunities. By Michael Buckland; 2000

The landscape of Information Science: The American Society for Information Science at 62. By Michael Buckland; 1999

The non-existent point: on the subject of defining library and information science and the concept of information. By Romulo Enmark; 1998

Bibliothekswissenschaft als Teil der Wissenschaftswissenschaft. By Walther Umstätter; 1996

> Information

Information as thing. By Michael Buckland; 1991

> Document

What is a "document"? By Michael Buckland; 1997

The Social Life of Documents. By John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid; 1995

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History

Media History Timelines - includes History of Computing, Hypermedia Timeline and Internet Timeline

Information und Kommunikation in Geschichte und Gegenwart - most throughout timeline by M. Rehm

History of Scientific Information and Communication - A Collection of Internet-Links by Thomas Hapke, TU Harburg

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Knowledge Management

ASIST SIGKM

> Compilations

WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management. - Vast resource with articles and further references

Knowledge Management Server. At the University of Texas at Austin - definitions, articles, and case studies

Sveiby Knowledge Management Library. By Karl-Erik Sveiby - Web site with articles and further references about KM

> Articles

Preparing for the Knowledge Era. By Onno van Ewyk; 1998 - nice article about what KM is and what we should do about it

Secrets of successful Knowledge Management. By Thomas H. Davenport

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Search engines and Web size

Search Engine Watch - reports about search engine sizes and other characteristics, updated regularly

Searching the World Wide Web. By S. Lawrence and C. Giles; 1998 - Famous article about search engine size in Science

Accessibility of information on the web. By S. Lawrence and C. Giles; 1999 - the follower to the Science article

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Information Retrieval

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) - Evaluation of IR systems, articles online

Information Retrieval. Book by C. J. van Rijsbergen; 1979 - one of the classics, fulltext online

ACM SIGIR

Web IR and Information Extraction by Einat Amitay

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Institutions, Organizations

World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, Information Systems, etc. - from the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

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Publications

Communications of the ACM

JASIST

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