1. Major ILS disciplines What does iSchools like SILS study?
Information, Technology, People

2. Information Science Overview
Representation of Information (Knowledge)
Storage of Information
Finding/Re-Finding Information
Exchange/Sharing of Information
Using Information

3. Representation Structure, how do we represent Scholarly literatures
Genomic Databases
Students suggest…

4. Information Structure
Classification
Indexing
Metadata
Structured representations of knowledge (controlled vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies, ontologies)

5. Storage What physical form does information have? Where do we put it?
How do we organize it?
Ontology will analyze the most general and abstract concepts or distinctions that unlderly every more specific description of any phenomenon in the world
e.g. time, space, matter, process, cause and effect, system

6. Storage over time… Or how technology changes everything
Oral exchange (memorizing the Iliad).
Printing press: books
Computers: electronic materials
Web, world wide sharing, publishing

7. Information Storage/Exchange
Data centric Databases
Document centric markup languages (XML)
Web based, large scale heterogeneous data sets
Big Data analytics (noSQL)

8. Finding & Re-finding Searching out information
How did a researcher search for information 500 years ago?
50 years ago?
Today?

9. Tools that help Finding
Uses information representation structures (indexing, classification)
Present via dynamic interface (show UNC library catalog example).
Why is Google search effective
Fast
Comprehensive
Direct connection to results

10. Exchange/Sharing How is information shared or exchanged
(500 years ago/ 50 years/ today)
What are some technologies used today for sharing/exchange?

11. Advantages of Sharing How does sharing/exchange help with finding?
Student suggestions? (hint, what are some of the things that shopping sites like Amazon do, or social networks like delicious?)

12. Using Information
observers read, view, listen to information to help them make decisions, come to conclusions.
What are the ways we interact with information? (paper, electronic)
For electronic the interaction can be dynamic (HCI/CHI, Human Computer Interaction).
Visualization, dynamic interfaces

13. How is technology changing everything?
Storage, transmission, display, use are all primarily electronic.
No longer one single copy but infinitely available, 24/7/365. Everyone has access. Human Genome project.

14. Changes, cont’d Interactive instead of Static Displays
Collaborative Work
Dynamic interfaces
Machine processing (indexing, classification, decision making)