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|title=Challenges and Opportunities for IS, IR & DS in an
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==Challenges and Opportunities for IS, IR & DS in an
                     Era of Information Ubiquity==
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Challenges and Opportunities for IS, IR & DS in
        an Era of Information Ubiquity

                                Nicholas J. Belkin

                               belkin@rutgers.edu

    In the emerging technological and social-technical environment, people will
be (to some extent, already are) constantly and ubiquitously emerged in a sea
of information (or, data). This will be:
 – Information (data) of a great variety of “kinds”;
 – Information (data) from or about increasingly varied and numerous sources;
 – Information (data) in increasingly varied and numerous media types;
 – Information (data) available in increasingly varied and numerous modalities;
   and,
 – Information (data) available for access and interaction in increasingly varied
   and numerous contexts.

    And, increasingly, “pushed” information will compete with, indeed, replace
“pulled” information. All of these conditions have major implications for research
and practice in each of the fields of Information Science, Information Retrieval,
and Data Science, individually, in their interactions with one another, and, per-
haps most importantly, in their integration. These implications present both
challenges and opportunities with respect to the goal of supporting people’s in-
teractions with information (data). In particular, the ubiquity of information,
and of information access, suggests that support for interaction with information
will require responding to (at least) the following facets of people:
 – The Ubiquitous Person
 – The Thinking Person
 – The Feeling Person
 – The Social Person
 – The Goal-Driven Person
 – The Non-Goal Person
 – The Embodied Person

    In this presentation, I propose the concept of “radical personalization” as a
means to support effective interaction amongst IS, IR and DS and to address
the challenges posed by the era of information ubiquity, and to take advantage
of the opportunities afforded by it. I also discuss some ethical issues inherent in
supporting people’s interactions with information (data) in the era of information
ubiquity in general, and in this specific approach to that goal.
  Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative
  Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). BIRDS 2020, 30 July
  2020, Xi’an, China (online).


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