Die englischsprachigen Begriffe der folgende Liste sind den Core Concepts in Library and Information Science von Birger Hjørland entnommen. Stand: 2006-12-16

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  • 80/20 rule 80/20-Regel
  • AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2. edition) AACR
  • Aboutness
  • Abstract
  • Academic librarian see Research librarian
  • Academy (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Access
  • Accession
  • Activity theory (Cultural Historical Activity Theory, CHAT)
  • edit: Activity theory
  • Algorithm
  • Alphabetical order
  • Alternative literature
  • Analysis
  • Anaphora
  • Annotation
  • Anthology
  • APA Studies
  • Applied Library and Information Science
  • Archive
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • "ASK" ("Anomalous State of Knowledge")
  • Atlas of Science
  • Audience
  • Author
  • Authority (Cognitive)
  • Authority control
  • Automation
  • Availability
  • Bar-Hillel, Y. (1915-1975)
  • Behaviorism in Information Science
  • Best match
  • Bias
  • Bibliographer. See Subject bibliographer
  • Bibliographic coupling
  • Bibliographic control
  • Bibliographic essay. See: Essay
  • Bibliographic guide
  • Bibliographic paradigm
  • Bibliographic reference
  • Bibliography
  • Bibliometrics
  • Bioinformatics
  • BIT (Binary Digit)
  • Bliss Bibliographic Classification (BC 1 and BC2) (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Blog. See Weblog
  • Book
  • Book House System ("Boghuset") (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Book review
  • Boolean search
  • Bradford's law see Scattering
  • Browsing (Information exploration)
  • BSO (Broad System of Ordering) (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Bulletin Board System (BBS)
  • Bush, Vannevar (1890-1974)
  • Business information
  • Canon
  • Case study
  • Category (Epistemological Lifeboat) to be edited: Categories
  • CCL (Common Command Language)
  • CD-ROM & DVD
  • Censorship and intellectual freedom
  • Character set
  • Chemoinformatics
  • Citation Indexing
  • Citation network
  • Classics (subject literature)
  • Classification (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Classification of the sciences
  • Clearinghouse
  • Cleverdon, Cyril William
  • Clippings See: Partial text representation
  • Cluster, clustering & cluster analysis
  • Co-citation
  • Co-word analysis
  • Cognitive authority (see Authority, cognitive)
  • Cognitive views in LIS
  • Cognitive science(s)
  • Collection management & evaluation
  • Colon Classification (CC) (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Command languages
  • Commercialization
  • Communication
  • Community information
  • Community of practice
  • Compactness versus diffuseness of literatures
  • Composition Studies
  • Computer
  • Computer science, theoretical
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  • Compatibility
  • Concentration see Scattering
  • Concept (see epistemological lifeboat)
  • Conduit metaphor
  • Consensual domains
  • Consensus
  • Consistency (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Content
  • Content analysis
  • Content management
  • Controlled vocabulary (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Coverage
  • Cranfield experiments
  • Criticism
  • Critical classification
  • Crude knowledge fields
  • Cumulative literature
  • Curation
  • Cutter, Charles A.
  • Cybernetics
  • Cyberspace
  • DANDOK
  • Dansk Forening for Information og Dokumentation. See: Dansk Teknisk Litteraturselskab.
  • Dansk Teknisk Litteraturselskab (DTL) /
  • Dansk Forening for Information og Dokumentation (DFID)
  • Data / datum
  • Data archive
  • Data bank
  • Database
  • Data curation See Curation
  • Data mining
  • Data retrieval
  • Databases (Electronic)
  • Datum / data
  • Decision theory
  • Definition (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Descriptive cataloging (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Descriptor
  • Dewey Decimal Classification, DDC (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Dewey, Melvin
  • Diagram
  • Dialog
  • DIANE Center
  • Dictionary
  • Diffusion of innovations (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Digital library
  • Discipline (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Discourse analysis
  • Discourse community
  • Dissertation
  • DK5 (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Document
  • Document architecture. See: Information architecture
  • Document Management
  • Documentalist
  • Documentation
  • Documentation Center
  • Documents, electronic
  • Documents functional categories
  • Document quality
  • Document delivery
  • Document representation
  • Document typology
  • Domain (Edit: Domain)
  • Domain analysis
  • Domain knowledge
  • Downloading
  • DVD See CD-ROM & DVD
  • Editing & editor
  • Electronic journal
  • Electronic mail
  • Ellipsis
  • Empiricism (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Encyclopedia (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Enduser
  • Entropy
  • Enumerative classification systems (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Epistemology (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Essay
  • Ethical problems in LIS
  • EUSIDIC
  • Evaluation
  • Everyday life information seeking
  • Exact match
  • Experiment in Information Science
  • Expert system
  • Exploding
  • Facet and facet analysis (Lifeboat for KO) Facettenklassifikation
  • Fact (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Fact retrieval
  • Fact sheet
  • False drop
  • Fashion in knowledge production
  • Feedback
  • FID
  • File
  • Film
  • Filter & filtering of information
  • Findability see Visibility (and findability)
  • Flow chart
  • Footnote Fußnote
  • Forecasts in information science
  • Form
  • Fragmentation
  • Frame
  • Free text searching
  • Full text databases
  • Full text searching
  • Functional analysis
  • Futility point criterion
  • Fuzzy logic Fuzzy Logic
  • Eugene Garfield
  • Gatekeeper
  • General education & general knowledge
  • Genre (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Geographical Information System
  • Glossary
  • Goldberg, Emanuel (1881-1970)
  • Grey literature
  • Grounded theory
  • Half life. See: Obsolescence
  • Hard science versus soft science
  • Heritology
  • Hermeneutics (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Heuristics
  • Historical informatics
  • Historicism (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Help system
  • Human-Computer Interaction and Ergonomics
  • Humanities information
  • Hypertext/Hypermedia
  • Icon
  • Iconoclastic research
  • Idea
  • Identifier
  • Ideology
  • IFLA
  • Ignorance
  • Impact factor
  • Index
  • Indexing
  • Indexing phrase
  • Individuality in information use
  • Info-mapping
  • Informal communication
  • Informatics
  • Information
  • Information analysis
  • Information Analysis Centre
  • Information centre
  • Information department
  • Information economics
  • Information explosion
  • Information filtering. See: Filter & filtering
  • Information ideology
  • Information literacy
  • Information market
  • Information management
  • Information need
  • Information politics
  • Information processing
  • Information professional See Information specialist
  • Information psychology
  • Information quality
  • Information Resources Management (IRM)
  • Information retrieval (IR)
  • Information retrieval, evaluation
  • Information retrieval language
  • Information retrieval manually v. automated
  • Information Science (IS)
  • Information science, biography
  • Information science, borderlands
  • Information science, methodology
  • Information Science, methods
  • Information Science, structure
  • Information science, theory
  • Information science, timeline
  • Information scientist
  • Information search strategy. See: Search strategy
  • Information seeking
  • Information services
  • Information society
  • Information sociology
  • Information source
  • Information specialist
  • Information storage and retrieval
  • Information storage and retrieval for the individual researcher
  • Information structures
  • Information system
  • Information systems, design
  • Information systems, evaluation
  • Information systems, typology
  • Information Technology
  • Information Technology, ethical aspects
  • Information Technology, timeline
  • Information theory
  • Informetrics
  • In-house databases
  • Innovation
  • Integrative mechanism
  • Integrated library system. See Library system
  • Interactive media
  • Interdisciplinarity (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Interface
  • Intermediary
  • Internationalization
  • Internet
  • Internet filter. See: Filter & filtering
  • Internet Archive (Lifeboat KO)
  • Intertextuality
  • Interview
  • Intranet
  • Inverted file
  • Invisible College
  • ISBN
  • ISDS
  • ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) see Standardization
  • ISSN
  • Iterative searching
  • J-STOR
  • Journal
  • Knowledge
  • Knowledge centre
  • Knowledge, forms of
  • Knowledge & Technology Utilization
  • Knowledge Management
  • Knowledge Organization (Lifeboat KO)
  • Knowledge Production
  • Knowledge Production, Quality of
  • edit: Knowledge Representation
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Knowledge Shop
  • Known item search
  • KWIC / KWAC / KWOC (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Label effect
  • Lancaster, Frederick Wilfrid (1933-)
  • Language code
  • Laws (in information science)
  • Legal informatics
  • Lexicon (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Lexicography
  • Librarian Bibliothekar
  • Library Bibliothek
  • Library and Information Science (LIS)
  • Library and information science in fiction
  • Library economy
  • Library Science & Librarianship
  • Library system
  • Library technique
  • Linguistic aspects of information science
  • Link analysis
  • Literacy
  • Literary warrant (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Literature
  • Literature list
  • Lix see Readability
  • Logic
  • Logical positivism (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Logistics
  • Lotka's law
  • Hans Peter Luhn (1896-1964)
  • Management Information System (MIS)
  • Manuscript
  • Map of knowledge See: Atlas of Science
  • Masking
  • Mass-communication
  • Material
  • Materialism (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Match
  • Meaning. See Meaning (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Mediating/Intermediating
  • Medium
  • Medical informatics
  • Memory
  • Memory Institutions. See: Repositories of public knowledge
  • Message
  • Meta analysis (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Meta-information
  • Meta-science
  • Metabibliography
  • Metadata (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Metaphor
  • Mikhailov, Alexander Ivanovich (1905-1988)
  • Microform
  • Mirror metaphor (Knowledge representation)
  • Modularity
  • Monograph
  • MONSTRAT Model
  • Mooers, Calvin Northrup (1919-1994)
  • Mooers' law
  • Multimedium
  • Museum (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Music librarianship & -documentation


  • Namedropping
  • National bibliography
  • Natural language
  • Network
  • Neural network
  • Newspaper
  • Newsletter
  • Nomenclature
  • Nominalism (-> Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • NORDINFO
  • Notation (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Obsolesence
  • Office of Research Integrity
  • On-line database
  • Ontology (Lifeboat for KO)
  • OPAC
  • Open access. See Access
  • Open access publication. See Public Library of Science
  • Operations Research
  • Order
  • Ostwald, Wilhelm (1853-1932)
  • Otlet, Paul (1868-1944)
  • Outsourcing
  • Overload
  • Pamphlet
  • Paradigm
  • Paraprofessional
  • Parasciences
  • Paratext (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Parser
  • Partial match see Match
  • Partial text representation
  • Patent
  • Paternalism
  • Peer-review
  • Periodical
  • Personal Information Manager
  • Pertinence see Relevance
  • Phenomenology (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Philosophical problems in LIS
  • Physical paradigm
  • Pertinence see Relevance
  • "Picture theory". See Mirror metaphor
  • Pictures
  • Piece
  • Plagiarism. See: Bibliographic reference
  • Polyrepresentation
  • Populism
  • Positivism (Epistemological Lifeboat) edit: Positivism
  • Post-coordinative indexing
  • Potential
  • Practice-Theory relation See: Applied Library and Information Science
  • Pragmatism
  • Pre-coordinative indexing
  • PRECIS (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Precision
  • Preprint (& e-print)
  • Price, Derek J. de Solla
  • Pricing model / -policy
  • Primary Information System
  • Primary literature
  • Principles
  • Printing
  • Problem
  • Proceedings
  • Profession
  • Professional aspects of LIS
  • Program
  • Progress
  • Project register
  • Prolegomena
  • Provenance (Lifeboat for KO). See also Order
  • Proximity operator
  • Public Library of Science
  • Publication
  • Publications, forms of
  • Publications, normative guidelines
  • Publishing
  • Quality
  • Query Expansion and reformulation
  • Query / Question
  • Quest-Quorum
  • Ranganathan, S. R.
  • Rank (DIALOG command) See Zoom
  • Ranking
  • Rationalism (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • RDF (Resource Description Framework)
  • Realia
  • Realism (Epistemological lifeboat) Edit: Realism
  • Recall
  • Reception studies (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Readability
  • Reading
  • Record
  • Reductionism (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Redundancy
  • Reference
  • Reference managers see Information storage and retrieval for the individual researcher
  • Reference work
  • Relevance (Epistemological Lifeboat). To be edited: Relevance
  • Relevance feedback
  • Repacked literature
  • Repositories of public knowledge / Memory institutions
  • Representation in LIS
  • Reprint
  • Research
  • Research evaluation
  • Research front
  • Research information
  • Research institution
  • Research librarian
  • Research processes, information seeking in
  • Resource Description Framework (RDF)
  • Review article
  • Salton, Gerard
  • SAP-Indexing
  • Satisfice
  • Scanning. See Browsing
  • Scanning persistence. See: Futility point criterion
  • Scattering (with Bradford's law)
  • Schema
  • Scholarly edition
  • School (Scientific) (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Science (Epistemological Lifeboat). Edit: Science
  • Science & Technology Information
  • Science cities / science parks
  • Science studies (Epistemological Lifeboat)
  • Scientific communication
  • Scientific and scholarly communication (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Scientific Documentation
  • Scientometrics
  • Search diagram. See Algorithm
  • Search language
  • Search profile
  • Search strategy
  • Search term
  • Secondary information systems
  • Secondary literature
  • Selection
  • Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)
  • Self citation
  • Semantic condensation
  • Semantic factoring
  • Semantic network
  • Semantics
  • Semiotics
  • Sense-making theory
  • Serendipity
  • SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
  • Shannon, Claude E
  • Sign
  • Signal
  • Social informatics
  • Social relevance
  • Social Science Informatics
  • Sociological-epistemological paradigm
  • Software
  • Sound book
  • Sound documentation
  • Source literature
  • Sources of information
  • Spang-Hanssen, Henning
  • Sparck Jones, Karen
  • Special librarianship
  • Specialization
  • Specificity (Lifeboat for Knowledge Organization)
  • Standardization
  • Statistics (domain) (Epistemological lifeboat)
  • Statistics (methods of LIS)
  • Statutory delivery of publications see Bibliographic control; National bibliography
  • Stopping behavior. See: Futility point criterion
  • Stop words
  • String search
  • Subject
  • Subject analysis
  • Subject bibliographer
  • Subject data
  • Subject expertise
  • Subject headings
  • Subject literature
  • Subject relatedness
  • Subject searching
  • Subject specialist
  • Subject terms / subject words
  • Subjects, simple versus complex
  • Subjects, Trades, disciplines
  • Summarization See Abstracts; Semantic condensation.
  • Survey literature see Tertiary literature
  • Switching languages
  • Symbol
  • Synergy
  • Syntactical devices
  • Systems analysis
  • System-oriented approach. See Physical paradigm
  • Systems theory
  • Table of Contents (TOC). See: Content
  • TARGET
  • Technical communication
  • Technological criticism
  • Technometrics
  • Tertiary information system
  • Tertiary literature (Survey literature)
  • Test Collection
  • Text
  • Text categorization
  • Text-retrieval see Information retrieval
  • Textbook
  • Theme
  • Theological information
  • Theory (Epistemological Lifeboat) To be edited: Theory
  • To be edited: Theory of science
  • Theory-practice relations in LIS. See Applied Library and Information Science
  • Terminology
  • Thesaurus (Lifeboat for KO)
  • "Text summarization" See Abstracts; Semantic condensation
  • Think tank
  • Title
  • Tool
  • Topic and topicality
  • Topic Maps (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Translation
  • Translation, Machine (MT)
  • Transparency
  • Transcription
  • TREC (Text REtrieval Conference)
  • Tree of Knowledge
  • Trial and error
  • Truncation
  • TT (Top Term) (See thesauri and metathesauri)
  • Tutoring systems (See help systems)
  • Uncitedness
  • Uniform Resource Identifier
  • UNISIST
  • UNISIST model of information dissemination
  • Universal classification systems (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) (Lifeboat for KO)
  • Universal model
  • University
  • Updating
  • URI. See: Uniform Resource Identifier
  • User
  • User education
  • User friendly information system
  • User modelling
  • User relations
  • User studies
  • Vector space
  • Venn diagram see Boolean search
  • Verification
  • Video
  • Videotex
  • Virtual library
  • Virtual reality. See Virtual library
  • Visibility (and findability)
  • Weblog (blog)
  • Webometrics
  • Weighting
  • Wersig, Gernot (1942-)
  • Wilson, Patrick (1928-2003)
  • Work (Lifeboat for KO)
  • World Wide Web. See: Internet
  • World brain
  • Written communication
  • Wüster, Eugen
  • Z39.50
  • Zipf, Georg Kingsley (1902-1950)
  • Zipf's law
  • Zoom