Information Science Towards IST: Emerging Interdisciplinary Domain with Expert Definition, Existing and Future Scenario

Abstract

Information is the most important and valuable term in today’s age. The term information is closely related with knowledge and data; however, there are some differences exist among these terms. Term information is very much close with Information Science; which is mainly responsible for healthy and sophisticated information systems and infrastructure building for all most all type of organization and institutions. Information Science is most important knowledge cluster and plays a vital role for computational as well as manual content and information solution. ‘Information Science’ the term and field is explained so many people in different perception and view. Information Science is closely related with Information Studies; which deals with theoretical information dealing. And it is also related with IT and Computing. This paper deals with Information Science and several aspects related to this. Paper especially highlights several perceptions and idea about Information Science and Technology (IST) explain broadly such aspects including in today’s point of view.

Keywords: Information Science, Information, Computing, Information Science and Technology, Engineering, Social Science, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems, Development Studies, Interdisciplinary Science