Information space
Information space is the set of concepts and relations among them held by an information system;[1] it describes the range of possible values or meanings an entity can have under the given rules and circumstances.
Information spaces surround us. When we retrieve a file from our computer, we are browsing through an information space; when we use a search engine we are sifting through an information space; and when we visit a website we are moving through yet another information space.
— Jason Withrow[2]
Another definition is that the information space are the total results of the semantic activity of the humanity, "the world of names and titles", conjugated to the ontological world. Being a primary concept, the information space cannot be precisely defined and is set as a dialectical opposition to the material, physical, object space.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Gregory Newby, Metric Multidimensional Information Space, Text Retrieval Conference, 4 November 1996
- ^ Jason Withrow, Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space, Washtenaw Community College, 30 August 2004
- ^ Sergei Pereslegin, Elena Pereslegina, What is enough for Herodotus..., Russian archipelago, 2001 (Russian)
