Definition
The discipline concerned with how information is organized, described, retrieved and evaluated: cataloguing and authority control, indexing and controlled vocabularies, search and retrieval, and the appraisal of evidence.
How we use the term
The discipline built the retrieval infrastructure AI now depends on: authority control is its symbolic layer, citation verification its probabilistic layer, and it has managed the relationship between authoritative declaration and independent verification for over a century.
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