Article,
Information science : why it is not data science
Data and Information Management, 7 (1): 100027 (March 2023)
DOI: 10.1016/j.dim.2023.100027
Abstract
Data are the eunuchs of the information world because data and data sets are functionally sterile and meaningless without reference to the intellectual, spatial, temporal, and social environment that represents their context. A serious researcher can prove nothing with data without knowing where they came from and what they mean. Information must always include context, and Information Science as practiced today represents the union of context and data. Information privacy is an especially important topic in the modern world, and is often poorly understood.
