Handbook of Information Science

This translation of an influential German textbook is aimed at library and information scientists and knowledge managers, among others. As the amount of information available to us increases, new ways must be found to manage, manipulate, and access it. Modern information science fills this need, lying at an intersection of information theory, computer science and philosophy. The approach here is not strictly mathematical, but widely conceptual. Specifically, sub-disciplines of information science are addressed in detail, in particular, the problems of information retrieval and knowledge representation. Many original concepts are proposed here, and the discussion looks at a wide range of retrieval models (Boolean, classical, and web--the latter with its own heretofore under-studied topology), language processing, the use of metadata, tagging and tag gardening, and knowledge classification and organization systems, without which the collections of bits would be utterly useless to anyone. Informetrics, indexing and summarization are covered as well. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Wolfgang G. Stock, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, undMechtild Stock, Kerpen.