title: The informational perspective: an overview of the issue.
abstract: Papers arising out of the 1996 Conference on the Foundations of Information Science are introduced. A key motif is the continual violation and restoration of consistency, percolating and precipitating along vertical chains of informational objects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights 41099, USA. kirby@nku.edu
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Kirby
mesh_terms: D007254:Information Science