ALISE Research Taxonomy

Revised 10/12/2016.

Area: Data management

Scope Note: The development and execution of architectures, policies, practices, and procedures to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization in an effective manner. Topics include:

Copyright
Data curation
Information governance
Information policy
Information privacy
Information security
Intellectual property
Knowledge management
Records and information management
Risk management

Area: Data science

Scope Note: Processes and systems to extract knowledge, social, and economic value in various forms, either structured or unstructured. Topics include:

Altmetrics
Bibliometrics
Big Data
Cloud computing
Data mining
Data visualization
Data warehousing
Informetrics
Machine learning
Natural language processing
Webometrics

Area: Human-computer interaction & design

Scope Note: The relationship between people, groups, and societies and computing and information systems. Topics include:

Artificial intelligence
Computer-supported collaborative work
Machine learning
Mobile systems
Social computing
User interfaces
Augmented reality
Ubiquitous computing

Area: Information organization and retrieval

Scope Note: Processes and systems to effectively represent and organize, and retrieve information. Topics include:

Abstracting
Archival arrangement and description
Classification
Cataloging
Cross-language information retrieval
Indexing
Interactive information retrieval
Linked data
Metadata
Multimedia information retrieval
Taxonomies
Ontologies
Semantic Web
Social tagging

Area: Information practices

Scope Note: Processes and systems that examine the dissemination and use of information. Topics include:

Censorship
Education
Information ethics
Information literacy
Information needs
Information seeking
Information use
Intellectual freedom
Print culture
Reading and reading practices
Reference transactions
Scholarly communications
Specific populations

Area: Education of information professionals

Scope Note: Methods and strategies to provide learning opportunities to information professionals. Topics include:

Accreditation
Administration
Continuing education
Curriculum
Education programs/schools
Online learning
Pedagogy
Research methods
Standards
Students
Teaching faculty

Area: Information services

Scope Note: Specific contexts in which information sources are collected for, and disseminated to, target populations. Topics include:

Academic libraries
Archives
Children’s services
Collections development
Community and civic organizations
Community engagement
Community-led services
Digital Humanities
Libraries in the developing world
Museums
Public libraries
Publishing
Readers’ advisory services
School libraries
Special libraries
Young adult services

Area: Information technologies

Scope Note: The design, application, and evaluation of computers, storage, networks, and other devices to create, process, store, secure, and exchange all forms of electronic data. Topics include: