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Cultural Synergy in Information Institutions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Cultural Synergy in Information Institutions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Cultural forces govern a synergistic relationship among information
institutions that shapes their roles collectively and individually.
Cultural synergy is the combination of perception- and
behavior-shaping knowledge within, between, and among groups. Our
hyperlinked era makes information-sharing among institutions
critically important for scholarship as well as for the advancement
of humankind. Information institutions are those that have, or
share in, the mission to preserve, conserve, and disseminate
information objects and their informative content. A central idea
is the notion of social epistemology that information institutions
arise culturally from social forces of the cultures they inhabit,
and that their purpose is to disseminate that culture. All
information institutions are alike in critical ways. Intersecting
lines of cultural mission are trajectories for synergy for allowing
us to perceive the universe of information institutions as
interconnected and evolving and moving forward in distinct ways for
the improvement of the condition of humankind through the building
up of its knowledge base and of its information-sharing processes.
This book is an exploration of the cultural synergy that can be
realized by seeing commonalities among information institutions
(sometimes also called cultural heritage institutions): museums,
libraries, and archives. The hyperlinked era of the Semantic Web
makes information sharing among institutions critically important
for scholarship as well as the advancement of mankind. The book
addresses the origins of cultural information institutions, the
history of the professions that run them, and the social imperative
of information organization as a catalyst for semantic synergy.
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