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Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information Science
About this project
This Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information Science is an international effort to document the lives and contributions of people and organizations who have made substantial contributions to the field.
This resource is designed to enable historical work in the field by identifying pioneering individuals and organizations significant to the development of Information Science, and providing locations of personal papers and archival records related to these individuals and organizations.
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DISCLAIMER: Note that most of the entries are stubs or otherwise need to be improved.
It also includes a list of known oral histories of information scientists.
History
"Pioneers of Information Science" was initiated by Dr. Robert V. Williams, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina in 1996. The objectives of that project were to locate and document the archives and personal papers of individuals and organizations from the U.S. and Canada that were significant to the development of Information Science and Technology in the 20th century.
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Belver Callis Griffith (1931-1999) was born in Hampton, Virginia. He earned a BA in psychology at the University of Virginia, 1948-1951, then at the University of Connecticut he received an MA (1953) and PhD (1957) in psychology.
In the early 1960s, Griffith examined scientific information exchange in the field of psychology as part of a research project with the American Psychological Association. Since then he mainly worked on the quantitative analysis of scientific communication, bibliometrics, scientometrics and scientific communication. In 1969, Griffith became a professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. In the 1970s he collaborated with Henry G. Small at the Institute for Scientific Information on co-citations as a means of analyzing formal structures and as a complement to the informal social structure in science. Together they published a number of important papers on co-citation analysis. He also co-authored with Howard D. White and others.
Contributions and Editorial Policies
We invite contributions from all members of the information science community. We especially seek international contributions. If you would like to write an entry, please read about the scope of the project and create a short article (a stub) that includes the individual or organization that you wish to nominate and submit it to the editors at biographicaleditor at gmail dot com.
See also our Manual of Style [1] and Article Template page.
The wiki is governed by an editorial board who hold all responsibility for the content of the project.