[SPG_Active_Members] FW: DDQ 6(3) is available 6

[H.M. Gladney]

> The latest number of the Digital Document Quarterly is available at
> http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm.  It addresses: 
> Digital Preservation
>            NDIIPP Funding Withdrawn
> Another Task Force, and Also New NSF Funding”
> Vintage Gadgets at the Computer History Museum
> Epistemology
> Notes on Natural Language
> Knowledge and Information
> Information Science
>      What is Information Science?
>      Rename Information Science as Knowledge Science?
>      Symptomatic Synopsis
> Reading Recommendations
>  Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus
>  Eric Kandel, In Search of Memory
>  Alan Hirschfeld: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
>  Andrew Spielman & Michael D’Antonio, Mosquito
> Practical Matters
>  Migrating from Microsoft Products to Open Source
>  Persistent Storage on Your LAN
>  Your Future PC
> 
> The core of DDQ 6(3) is the beginning of a critique of Information
> Science.  This critique, planned to continue in future DDQ numbers,
> explores the proposition that Information Science will not resolve current
> uncertainties about its place as an academic discipline on a par with
> Computer Science, but instead will fade within two decades, with its
> concerns becoming topics in more enduring university faculties.  
> 
> Information Science professionals who believe this prediction mistaken
> might wish to present counter-arguments to what appears in DDQ.  To them,
> I suggest that Information Science will fade unless they can produce
> justifications and scoping statements much more robust than any I have
> read.  Should they want DDQ to publish or cite of their refutations, I
> will be happy to include them provided that they accommodate the compact
> DDQ style.
> 
> Readers are reminded that embedded links provide quick access to other
> authors' discussions of topics that DDQ mentions, in case they want more
> depth than DDQ can provide.
> 
> Cheerio, Henry
>  
> H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.  http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney
> 
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