Informatics

Abstract

At the 33rd Conference of the International Federation for Documentation in Tokyo, September 1967, Profeesor Mikhailov, director of the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINIT) presented a paper entitled: "Informatics: a scientific disciplina", introducing thereby a new term into the international scientific terminology.
The term "informatics" was created by Korkevitsch, Dreifus and Dorfmann out of the word "Information" by adding to the root of the word "informat" the suffix "ics", thus receiving informatics, similarly to the formation of terms of other sciences as mathematics, cybernetics eto.
Informatics is a new concept including the sciences being related to the theory and practice of information, embracing all its aspects either theoretical or practical. Informatics as a new science is interrelatad - though in a different extent - with other sciencee e.g. bibliography, librarianship, documantation, reprography, information theory, cybernetics, semiotics, biology, communication, symbolical logic, semantics, psychology, electronics and automation.
Tha Central Classification Committee of the International Federation for Documentation (FID/CCC) has organized at the beginning of 1968 a special working groap to revise the UDC-tables on Librarianship and Documantation with the aim that the classes 002 Documentation and 02 Librarianship should be merged and inserted into the UDC under the new class 04/05 Informatics. Thus, in 1968, at the centenry of the birth of Paul Otlet, one of the founders of documentation, the term "informatics" will he definitively incorporated into the international scientific terminology.