Research in information science: towards an interdisciplinary adjustment
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https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v1i2.1040Abstract
Reflections on the past, present and future of documentary research. Documentary research is to be approached with pragmatical aims and an interdisciplinary basis in the frame of the Cognitive Sciences. Its object is defined to be the information from the point of view of its retrieval. This aim must guide selectively any interdisciplinary approach. From this perspective, reductionist approaches are criticised: both those from a mere business and technical perspective, and those interdisciplinary ones from the Linguistics, the Content Analysis and Discourse Analysis that lose the pragmatic aims of documentary research. A careful terminological purge is, therefore, needed. The author proposes a cultural-cognitive model of the documentary process, divided into four phases: reading, transformation, representation and retrieval. This model is to be completed with a Theory of Selection and a Theory of Use of documentary information. The research task of the next decade is considered to be the simulation of the new theoretical models with the help of expert systems.Downloads
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