PROCESSO EVOLUTIVO E TENDÊNCIAS CONTEPORÂNEAS DA CIÊNCIA DA INFORMAÇÃO

Abstract

This is a study of the Information Science under the historical epistemology approach showing the development in the area from the very beginning emphasizing, chronologically, the major contributions of theoreticians and experts especially in the conceptual and methodological aspects.In such analysis there comes different thinkers and currents of thought, for example from the United States, Great Britain, the former Soviet Union and Brazil. It is focused the evolution along the years, and some matters as the contemporary tendencies towards interdiciplinarity, concepts, terminology and the information science and its relation with data and knowledge,are pointed out , besides some consideration about possible interdisciplinary and epistemological development.