Information history

Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina
Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina
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Library and information science
Histories
Libraries - Information
Focus
Archives management - Collections management (Preservation) - Data management - Information management (cataloguing) - Knowledge management - Library management
Curation
Data - Metadata - Information - Documents - Artefacts - Knowledge
Interdisciplinary fields
Archival science - Communication studies - Computer science - Data science - Documentation science - Epistemology - Library science - Information science - Science and technology studies
Areas
Academic - Archival - Legal - Health - Private - Public - School - Special

Information history may refer to the history of each of the categories listed below (or to combinations of them). It should be recognized that the understanding of, for example, libraries as information systems only goes back to about 1950. The application of the term information for earlier systems or societies is a retronym.