Information and the information approach: from informatics to globalistics

Information is understood as a universal attribute of matter and is generally viewed as reflected diversity. It is asserted that informatics is the science of information and the laws of its existence, transfer, and development. It is supposed that the information approach forms a distinct branch of informatics, i.e., information globalistics, an essentially new trend of global research.     

Using clinical vignette assignments to teach medical informatics

In response to curricular changes, many academic health sciences librarians have participated in curriculum planning and/or developed informatics course requirements for students enrolled at health sciences universities. This article describes the use of clinical vignette assignments, student journal club activities, and vignette-type multiple choice questions to teach and assess skills related to managing biomedical information, communicating effectively, basic computing, and life-long learning.     

再论竞争情报与情报学的发展

从情报的词源与情报学理论来看,智能性是情报的基本属性.作为智能属性的情报,既是一种产品,又是一种过程,而情报学是以情报为研究对象,探索信息激活规律的科学.竞争情报坚持了以情报为研究对象,同时因为情报所蕴含的智能性而成为情报学研究的核心领域与发展方向.     

数据挖掘:情报学的发展

从数据挖掘的概念出发,分析情报学发展面临的问题和数据挖掘技术给情报学领域带来的影响,说明数据挖掘技术不仅提升了情报学的研究深度和关联度,而且给情报学的发展带来了机遇与挑战。     

医学信息学专业开设物联网技术相关课程的必要性

介绍了物联网技术的基本概念,分析了医药卫生领域有关物联网技术的国家政策以及应用现状,阐述了医学信息学专业开设物联网技术相关课程的必要性和可行性.     

Health informatics in Chile: responding to health reforms

Chile is in the throes of health reforms aimed at ensuring that every person with specified chronic diseases receives timely and high quality care. CITs are crucial to the achievement of this vision because they make it possible to manage information and knowledge in a more efficient way. Until a few years ago, the incorporation of CITs was limited to individual initiatives, but since 2004 there has been a master plan to coordinate this task in the public sector. Some projects are now operative but there is still a long road to travel before getting to our destination. One of the most underdeveloped areas is the clinical applications of health CITs, especially the incorporation of biomedical knowledge to clinical practice. The two biggest challenges facing the Digital Agenda for the health care system are (i) to develop a critical mass of clinicians and health related professionals with expertise in Health Informatics; and (ii) to foster technical integration of the private and public sectors of the health care market.     

Crisis manifestations for civilization and informatics

The world community has been living under the conditions of a deepening financial-economic crisis in the last year. The wish inevitably arises to look at the problem from a wider perspective, in the context of the crisis phenomena of civilization as a whole. It turns out that all of them are organically bound with human nature. Only overcoming these crisis states can ensure the steady development of humanity. It is not difficult to see that all these similar problems are tightly bound with information phenomena, with the circle of the cardinal problems of informatics.     

Defining and assessing medical informatics competencies

As academic health sciences libraries assume larger roles in informatics instruction within medical school curricula, librarians are challenged to develop useful and accurate measures for assessing the effectiveness of instructional approaches. The need for this evaluation has intensified as medical schools increase their emphasis on integration of curriculum content and shift to competency-based education and assessment of medical students. This paper reports on a pilot project developed at Dahlgren Memorial Library, Georgetown University Medical Center, for two courses using an instructional intervention and tailored assignment for assessing student competencies.     

Sociocultural integration of humanity and informatics

Any type of integrity includes certain parts and aspects. Social integration is based on culture and this is manifested in the history of any separate nation or state, as well as on the scale of all of humanity. In culture, the determinant role belongs to various forms of social information and progress in informatics makes this increasingly evident. In the globalization era, the information factors of human sociocultural integration are of special interest for science and social practice.     

情报学研究的方法论认同与理论创新问题

随着中国情报学规范化、国际化与本土化趋势的加深,必然出现一个对情报学研究的方法论与理论资源的最优选择和运用问题.只有处理好方法论认同与理论创新问题,才能不断提升中国情报学研究的学术质量.     

一代恩师风范长存

1955年我考入武汉大学（以下简称“武大”）学习，因1952年（一说1953年）全国经过院系调整，原来由美国人韦棣华先生创办的武昌“文华图专”，被并人武大，建立了新的“图书馆学系”，这是我国最早由国家兴办的图书馆学高等教育，亦为武大增添了新的专业。初组织系的规模不大，教职工约有二十名，但大家齐心协力，把系办得井井有条。当时53级和54级只招收20名学生，学制两年；55级增招至40名，比原有数翻了一倍，学制三年；56级以后，改为四年制本科，再扩招至60名。我们入学时，只有54级，毕业时又有56级和57级，学生总人数约为150多名，但比起一些老系（如中文、历史、哲学、数学、物理学、化学和生物等系），只算是一个小系、新系。因此，我们见证了武大图书馆学系由小到大、茬壮成长的发展历程。     

继续走在创新的路上

业已百岁的广播,生存压力增大,何去何从,惹人思量。中国如此,世界亦然。2006年,参加第七届伊朗国际广播节,会上,各国代表谈及最多的就是广播的未来。亚广联秘书长戴维·阿斯特雷展望说:将来的某一天,早上我出门前,从网上下载我想听的新闻、我想听的音乐,然后开车上班,听一路。他的话传递出两个信息:一、未来,广播的传播与接收形式会发生变化;二、信息的采撷、有声的播报、伴随的属性,这些广播的基本特质还将存在。因科技的发明而产生、因科技的进步而发展的广播,在未来的日子里还会因为科技的迅猛前行而变数无限。     

图书馆学、情报学理论创新中的知识论研究

在波普“世界3”理论的基础上,文章从知识管理的角度来重新认识图书馆学、情报学,重新认识图书馆的本质与价值。图书馆学、情报学正在以知识为中心进行重组和创新。图书馆学、情报学这种从文献、信息层次向知识层次的深化、演进与发展,构成了图书馆学情报学研究的知识化趋向。     

对情报学研究中一些问题的反思和再认识

文章在回顾目前情报学基础理论研究概况的基础上,对情报学的研究状况进行了反思,并针对影响情报学认知和基础理论建设的irntelligence、information争论和两种大小情报观问题进行了回顾、反思与再认识,试图从中寻求把握问题的处理原则,最大程度地谋求一些共识,以便为情报学基础理论的科学建设创造条件.     

高校情报学研究状况的计量评价--武汉大学、南京大学、北京大学情报学论文的统计分析

论文利用文献计量学方法，对三所重点高校在情报学核心期刊上发表的论文进行文献数量分布、研究主题分布、发文被引和自引等方面的计量分析，以评价三所高校在情报学领域的研究热点、学科劳动组织和学科生产率。     

新时期我国图书馆学情报学教育改革走向

通过对中国图书情报教育现状的分析和世界图情教育潮流的预测。提出了我国图情教育改革的意见和办法,并讨论了与之相适应的课程设置问题。