Information Science

With regard to the problems identified by many researchers relating to the storage and processing of (semi-)structured digital data, accessibility and sharing, intellectual property, digital documents, information retrieval, information literacy, the relevance of information, information profiles of users, etc. the political projects for the Information Society cause some caution and embarrassment from a scientific point of view.

This book gathers 13 contributions from Information Science researchers, and presents some scientific issues from the various domains which are, also, the issues in our present digital era. Preface xiii Some Revisions of the Concept of Information 1

From Scientific Communication to Specialized Mediation: Communication of Knowledge and Forms of Hybridizations 33

Document and Network 91

Information Culture 119

Relevance in Information Science Different Models, one Theory? 145

Electronic Information Access Devices: Crossed Approaches and New Boundaries 167

Relevant Information in Economic Intelligence 191

Representations of Digital Documents in Automatic Text Analysis: a Pluridisciplinary Problem 213

Freedom of Information, Participative Democracy and Local Economy 233

Internet in the Public Library 253

Electronic Editing for Mobile Devices: Original Audiovisual Contents on Mobile, Socio-technical and Socio-economic Conditions of their Emergence 277

Conclusion 295

Bibliography 296

List of Authors 299

Index 303

Fabrice Papy is an associate professor in Information Science at the University of Paris 8 (France). He founded the "Digital Document and Uses" Lab. within multidisciplinary researchers studies the digital impact on social behaviours.