Some challenges and trends in information science

Abstract

Contemporary information science is a vivid discipline whose development is inspired and driven by many other disciplines such as theory of information, mathematics, computer science, psychology, sociology and social communications, librarianship, museology and archival sciences, linguistics, law, and cognitive sciences. In this chapter we briefly take a look at a collection of assorted phenomena, methodologies and technologies that will have a significant impact on the scope and the ways information science will unfold in the coming years. The chapter will provide our understanding of information science as a dynamic discipline that extends its boundaries as new methodologies and technologies come along, as a result of scientific discoveries, engineering achievements and emergence of new business models. It will present and elaborate on the challenges that constitute a framework within which new trends in information science have started appearing and most likely will shape the face of information science and its applications in the years to come.