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The Sense of Information: Understanding the Cognitive Conditional Information Concept in Relation to Information Acquisition

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Context: Nature, Impact, and Role (CoLIS 2005)

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Abstract

The cognitive information concept is outlined and discussed in relation to selected central conceptions associated to Library and Information Science (LIS). The paper discusses the implication of the conception to information acquisition, both in a narrow information seeking and retrieval sense as well as in more general terms concerned with daily life situations and scientific discovery from sensory data.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Birketinget 6, DK 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark

    Peter Ingwersen

  2. Department of Information Studies, Tampere University, FIN-33014, Tampere, Finland

    Kalervo Järvelin

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

    Fabio Crestani

  2. Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, G1 1XH, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Ian Ruthven

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Ingwersen, P., Järvelin, K. (2005). The Sense of Information: Understanding the Cognitive Conditional Information Concept in Relation to Information Acquisition. In: Crestani, F., Ruthven, I. (eds) Context: Nature, Impact, and Role. CoLIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3507. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11495222_3

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