The Encyclopedia Gallica of Events - or Why Geographic Information Science Is Not Like Physics
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The concept of information science is not present in the high-level state documents of Islamic Republic of Iran
One of these documents is the Islamic-Iranian model of progress. In this document as well other high-level state documents, one can hardly find the word or even concept of knowledge and information science (KIS). This is mostly because the professionals in KIS discipline did not accomplish their function and therefore, although Iran suffers from the lack of real concept of storage and retrieval...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2573-783X
DOI: 10.21433/b31118t7k513