Introduction
The main topics of this module are the uses of information proposed by Michael Buckland in his article Information as Thing[1], which was originally published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42:5 (June 1991): 351-360.
Michael K. Buckland is a professor at the University of California, Berkley School of Information.
Key words :
Information
Evidence
Tangibility
Situational
Consensus
The article begins with Buckland's categorization of information intro three different groups: information-as-process, information-as-knowledge and information-as-thing. This is followed by their comparison with a strong emphasis on the importance of information-as-thing.
