Open AccessTerminology Overload?
Author(s) -
Alan Gilchrist
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2148-354X
DOI - 10.15612/bd.2001.457
Subject(s) - terminology , statement (logic) , information overload , work (physics) , taxonomy (biology) , linguistics , knowledge management , computer science , engineering ethics , sociology , world wide web , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , botany , biology
The information industry is now full of professionals from many areas, and those who have been working in that area the longest: that is to say, librarians, documentalists and information scientists, must learn the language that these other professions use it they are to maintain their own professionalism and work effectively (as they must) with the relative newcomers.
The belief in the statement above is exemplified in the new use of the word taxonomy, and several meanings of this word are discussed with reference to findings from a research study conducted by the author.