Information Source
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An Information Source is a physical or online reference that provides Information.
- Context:
- It can be Data.
- It can be a person, such as an Expert.
- It can range from being a Primary Source, to being a Secondary Source, to being a Tertiary Source.
- Example(s):
- a Bibliographic Reference,
- an Informant,
- an Online Database,
- a Technical Manual.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Knowledge Acquisition Task, Multi-Information Source Optimization, Information Source Selection Behavior, Source Preference Criteria, Information Design.
References
2018
- (Woodley, 2018) ⇒ Mary Woodley, CSUN Oviatt Library: http://library.mccnh.edu/research-help/source-types Retrieved: 2018-06-24.
- QUOTE: In general, there are three types of resources or sources of information: primary, secondary, and tertiary. It is important to understand these types and to know what type is appropriate for your coursework prior to searching for information.
- 1. Primary sources are original materials on which other research is based, including:
- original written works – poems, diaries, court records, interviews, surveys, and original research/fieldwork, and
- research published in scholarly/academic journals.
- 2. Secondary sources are those that describe or analyze primary sources, including:
- reference materials – dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and
- books and articles that interpret, review, or sythesize original research/fieldwork.
- 3. Tertiary sources are those used to organize and locate secondary and primary sources.
- Indexes – provide citations that fully identify a work with information such as author, titles of a book, artile, and/or journal, publisher and publication date, volume and issue number and page numbers.
- Abstracts – summarize the primary or secondary sources,
- Databases – are online indexes that usually include abstracts for each primary or secondary resource, and may also include a digital copy of the resource.
- 1. Primary sources are original materials on which other research is based, including:
- QUOTE: In general, there are three types of resources or sources of information: primary, secondary, and tertiary. It is important to understand these types and to know what type is appropriate for your coursework prior to searching for information.
2018b
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_source Retrieved:2018-6-24.
- An information source is a person, thing, or place from which information comes, arises, or is obtained. Information souces can be known as primary or secondary. That source might then inform a person about something or provide knowledge about it. Information sources are divided into separate distinct categories, primary, secondary, tertiary, and so on.