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<p>Dear FIS Colleagues,</p>
<p>The leisure time of vacations is over and it would be time to
reassume the list exchanges. There were several interesting
sessions which had been planned for this new course, but
unfortunately none of them seems possible in a short term. In
order that these "dry" months --even previous to the IS4SI
conference-- come to an end, let me request the involvement of FIS
parties, either volunteering for session chairs or suggesting
interesting new themes & parties for future sessions. At the
time being my personal capability to produce new sessions seems
rather low...</p>
<p>Anyhow, as a means to break the ice of this new course I have
revisited some notes I took during a very fertile round table
coordinated by Yixin Zhong on "ecologies of knowledge" in the
Gotheborg IS4SI meeting. I have realized that with some tweaking a
short list of, say "10 principles for information science", was
emerging. Could this rather idiosyncratic stuff be tolerable for
the high diversity of points of view in FIS? Maybe not. But at
least I hope it will support some lively discussion.</p>
<p>In order to have some operativity, I will post the principles
this Friday, and then the comments will fly or not... Well, I had
initially thought that each principle could have an initial
commentator (just based on my terribly subjective views). To list
them: Marcin (for princ. 1), Jerry (2), Gordana (3), Terry (4),
Stan (5), Soeren (6), Tozzi (7), Yixin (8), Loet (9), Howard (10).
Probably this is rather complex, so after some rounds of general
comments on the whole scheme we will see whether this detailed
analysis can be performed or not.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all,</p>
<p>--Pedro<font size="+2"><br>
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta 0
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
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