Curating the infosphere Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Information as the foundation for library and information science

摘要

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the proposal that Luciano Floridi's philosphy of information (PI) may be an appropriate conceptual foundation for the discipline of library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach - A selective literature review and analysis are carried out. Findings - It is concluded that LIS is in need of a new conceptual framework, and that PI is appropriate for this purpose. Originality/value - Floridi proposed a close relationship between PI and LIS more than a decade ago. Although various authors have addressed the aspects of this relationship since then, this is the first proposal from an LIS perspective that PI be adopted as a basis for LIS.