1. The Spectrum of the Information Disciplines
   1. From the disciplines of the cultural record (humanities) to the science-oriented field (information science)
2. Information science
   1. textual content
   2. the presumed cognitive outcome of reading the texts
3. L&IS defined
   1. Questioners' properties
   2. Properties of mediation systems
   3. The properties of literatures imply the field of bibliometrics
   4. The properties of answers
4. Goonatilake's Information Flow Lineages and Bates' Information Forms
   1. the heart of the information disciplines is exosomatic information
5. Organization & Journals
   1. ASIST - JASIST
   2. ISKO - Knowledge Organization
   3. SIGIR - annual proceedings of the SIGIR
   4. TREC
   5. ACM
   6. IEEE
   7. ISSI - Scientometrics and the journal of Informetrics
6. bibliometrics
   1. Eugene Garfield
      1. founded the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which changed to Thomson Reuters
         1. created the well-known journal impact factor
   2. Quantitative network theory
   3. the papers connected by citation in the literatures of science and technology or bundles of hyperlinked pages across the entire Web
      1. Very Important Person
         1. She likes tulip
7. mapping the 120 authors with the highest citation counts in 12 IS serials during 1972-1995
   1. algorithmically on the basis of cocitation
      1. Henk Moed and B.R. Martin used the citation analysis in evaluating research teams
   2. Leo Egghe is a mathematical IS leader and the founding editor of the Journal of Informatics
8. The storage and management of exosomatic information
   1. made it possible the exponential growth of human knowledge and power over nature
9. Conceptual Integration
   1. The Hunger Games
   2. The $100 Startups
10. Data
    1. become information when they are given meaning
       1. become knowledge when they are integrated with pre-existing knowledge in the mind or brain
    2. information selected and generated by human beings for social purposes ex. 1) Initial products of research and scholarship generated through the actions of the researcher ex. 2) create data bases to store collections of facts about people, artifacts, etc. for the purpose of business, government, or other organizations
11. Is information an abstract entity or physical reality?
12. subjective or objective approach?
    1. metatheory
       1. biology, anthropology, psychology-added new frame work to study human behavior with understanding evolution and its impact in the cognitive linguistic, and social structure
    2. Take Aaron to Disneyland
13. what are the differences between biochemistry and art information?