Information-as-a-Thing versus Information-as-a-Process: The Legitimate Differences between Information Resources Management and Information Management
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2021
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Emerald Publishing
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The term information, in itself, is nebulous, that indeed comes in different formats,
different operations, having various meanings with many diverse applications. It could be
understood in numerous ways depending on the environment, perspective, interpretation and
criteria espoused in viewing it. The information science professionals are greatly concerned with
the word, information, specifically on their creation, selection, organization, storage,
transformation, transition, utilization and most importantly their management as vital resources.
Information storage, retrieval system and all other information infrastructure that constitute
information system deals with information as a resource that can be stored in an actual sense of
physical and virtual collection. Information resources in the ambit of information resources
management cannot achieve anything except people do something with it either by examining,
categorizing, or describing it, but in the end, they understood, rebut, alter or do all sorts of
manipulation to the dataset or information. Meanwhile, all this interpretation and manipulation constitute the hallmark of information management.
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Information, Information as a Thing, Information as a Process, Information Resources, information resources management, Information Management