Open AccessAn Information Science Manifesto
Author(s) -
Soergel Dagobert
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
bulletin of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8366
pISSN - 0095-4403
DOI - 10.1002/bult.77
Subject(s) - honor , manifesto , sociology , library science , psychology , epistemology , computer science , political science , law , philosophy , operating system
Before I do that, I want to acknowledge an intellectual debt by paying homage to one of the great thinkers and visionaries of our field, Calvin Mooers. I met Calvin for the first time at an IFIPS meeting in Munich in 1962. After his paper on the nature of descriptors and the structure of classification, a small group of us had an hour-long discussion energized by his intellectual spark. This and my subsequent study of his work was the starting point of a long journey that brought me here and that has not come to an end yet. Many of the ideas in his 1959 paper The next twenty years in information retrieval could still be published today under the same title. Calvin Mooers pioneered user-oriented indexing 40 years before the term user-centered became fashionable.