Institute Of Electronics Information And

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Institute Of Electronics Information And

Institute Of Electronics Information And

Information Science is a difficult field of studies to interpret, let alone describe. Because it is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information, it fits into a categories of most subjects. The fact that Information Science is often merged with library science departments in most North American institutions makes it even more confusing. Because of the multi-disciplinary nature of the field, there has been no authoritative figures that can be pinpointed as the progenitors of IS. However, there are in fact a number of key scholars and practitioners that are key builders that form the discipline.

SR Ranganathan

Originally a mathematician who taught at the University of Madras in India, Ranganathan later became a librarian and went overseas to Britain to study library science. Ranganathan's greatest achievements to information science are the colon classification system (CC) and the five laws of library science. Inspired by lego-like Meccano blocks in a toy store, Ranganathan's invention of the CC system challenged the dominance of the Dewey Decimal Classification system. In fact, Google's algorithm is inspired by the colon classification structure.

Edgar Codd

Known to be the originator of the modern database, Codd came up with an influential research paper which outlined relational databases. During his time as a mathematical programmer, he published a paper called"A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" in 1970 which established the field of database programming. Using both relational calculus and relational algebra, relational databases eventually extended to SQL programming.