introduction: for many years, ontologies have been available in many different forms, for example: classification schema, thesauruses, authorized vocabularies, terminologies and dictionaries. terminology and knowledge resources are essential components of interoperability among disparate systems. so, this paper considered the ontology of umls (which was prepared by national library medicine of ...

purpose: libraries and information centers as information storage and retrieval systems can develop with the adoption of cybernetics rules. this paper discusses system dynamics, control, feedback, and other cybernetic concepts especially in information storage and retrieval systems. methodology: this study is a review intending to find what cybernetics and lis have in common especially in the f...

this study aimed to describe the concepts and characteristics of wilson's information seeking behavior model, as the highly cited pattern in information seeking behavior debates and tracing its completion, expansion and development process. wilson's information seeking behavior model is the base for other subsequent related models. it has been the highly cited model amongst other information se...

background: personal information management (pim) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. this study examined the pim activities of faculty members of iran university of medical sciences (iums) regarding their preferred pim tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   methods : the qualitati...