Information Science Road Trip (10 Big Ideas of Information Science)

This video surveys 10 Big Ideas of Information Science. It is a brisk, high-level intellectual history of the field, and topics appear in loose chronological order. The choices for featured ideas are based on my own predilections, not any sanctioned canon. Hopefully, this video sparks a conversation about the history and future of ideas in Information Science. Don't miss the souvenirs at the end! Since each treatment is necessarily quick, additional resources are below. Here's a fun crossword puzzle that reviews the material in the video [http://www.jennahartel.info/uploads/8...]. Educators may include Information Science Road Trip in any introductory lesson on Information Science.

Dra. Aurora González-Teruel (University of Valencia) has created Spanish subtitles for this video. Muchas gracias, Dra. González.

00:00 - Welcome
00:27 - (1) The Document
01:04 - (2) The Bradford Distribution
01:52 - (3) Information (Itself)
02:49 - (4) DIKW Pyramid
03:38 - (5) Social Epistemology
04:32 - (6) Relevance
05:14 - (7) Undiscovered Public Knowledge
06:02 - (8) The Principle of Least Effort
06:40 - (9) Metadiscipline
07:21 - (10) Information Metatheories
08:17 - Indigenous Ways of Knowing
09:03 - Reprisal and Souvenirs
09:37 - Resources and Crossword Puzzle
09:51 - Closing

THE DOCUMENT
The Document Academy has an excellent bibliography at [https://documentacademy.org/?bibliogr...].

THE BRADFORD DISTRIBUTION
Eugene Garfield (1980) provides an accessible introduction to “Bradford’s Law and Related Statistical Patterns” [http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/ess...]. Here's an account of Bradford’s tenure at the Science Museum Library (1925-1937) [https://www.emerald.com/insight/conte...].

INFORMATION (ITSELF)
Marcia Bates’ chapter “Information” (2010) is an epic survey of this concept in Information Science [https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/...]; with many source publications.

DIKW PYRAMID
A starting point for DIKW is the online ISKO encyclopedia [https://www.isko.org/cyclo/dikw]. I also recommend David and Lyn Bawden’s textbook, Introduction to Information Science, which discusses DIKW and other big ideas in the video [https://www.alastore.ala.org/introIS2].

SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
Tarcisio Zandonade (2004) provides a sweeping history of SE. [https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...]. Jonathan Furner’s paper that focuses on Egan’s contribution is also recommended [https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...]. And, domain analysis is an expression of SE [https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...].

RELEVANCE
Tefko Saracevic’s 1975 paper on relevance anchors the concept in our literature [https://tefkos.comminfo.rutgers.edu/S...]. Another masterful explication is Howard D. White’s chapter, "Relevance in Theory" [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapter...].

UNDISCOVERED PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
Read Swanson's original vision in Library Quarterly [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...], and then his update a decade later [https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...].

THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST EFFORT
My favorite statement on this concept is the chapter in the Library Research Models (1993) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26721660], by Thomas Mann (librarian at the Library of Congress).

METADISCIPLINE
Information Science as a metadiscipline is presented in "The Invisible Substrate of Information Science" by Marcia Bates [https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/...]. Also see my video on that very paper [   • The Invisible Substrate of Informatio...  ].

INFORMATION METATHEORIES
The paper that launched this big idea, "‘ISMS’ of Information Science…" (Talja, Tuominen, & Savolainen, 2005), is available at [https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...]. Marcia Bates’ paper is also an excellent introduction, which delineates 13 metatheories [https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/...].

INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING
The University of Colorado libraries provides a detailed online guide to this topic [https://libguides.colorado.edu/c.php?...]. There is also a fact sheet by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (authored by J. Stinson) at [https://www.criaw-icref.ca/images/use...]. Courtesy of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum are additional teachings and stories by Elder Hazel Dixon at [https://royalsaskmuseum.ca/educate/cl...].