Broad Perspective

• Problem orientation
  • Help people find and use information
  • Draws from fundamental survival needs
  • Expands as technology provides more ways to aid humans
  • Applies any approaches that help solve the problems (interdisciplinary)
  • Brings built-in measure/evaluation
• Related disciplines
  • Electronic publishing, document processing, SGML
  • CD-ROM, CD-*, tertiary storage
  • Educational technologies, distance learning
  • Multimedia, hypermedia
  • HCI, CSCW
  • AI, computational linguistics, expert systems, distributed AI, DEBIS
  • Algorithms, data structures, databases, object bases
  • Distributed processing, client-server computing, distributed systems,
  • Electronic libraries, digital libraries