知識空間中的資訊路徑

Information Paths in Knowledge Spaces

本研究回顧人類在口語文化、書寫文化和位元文化中（知識分別以口語言說、書面文字和位元訊號的型態呈現）如何穿越知識的密林。如果將資訊的概念加以空間化，將眾多資訊所在之處視為一廣大的空間，「資訊路徑」可視為在資訊空間中「尋找到特定的資訊」所需要的定位和移動的策略。人類在知識文明的長河中發展出不同的方法和工具以因應超量的訊息，協助使用者尋找所需的資訊，而資訊在資訊空間中被組織的方式是否具備可供參照的秩序或結構，在資訊重返的過程中至關重要。本文分別從前述三種文化脈絡下各具代表性的知識管理系統——亦即記憶術、圖書館學和電腦科學的觀點，探討西方文明的知識空間中資訊被組織、儲存和提取的方式。

Throughout history, human beings have developed a variety of strategies to traverse the enormous knowledge space and locate specific information. Taking metaphorical use of space as a means of conceptualizing information, namely where numerous information reside could be regarded as a vast space, and the trail navigating through the space to find information could be seen as an information path. The referenceable order or structure within information space is crucial in the process of information revisiting. From oral culture, written culture to bits culture, the research intends as a review of diverse methods of information organization, storage and retrieval developed in Western civilization. By looking at representative knowledge management systems in the three cultures, the discussion would be approached from the perspectives of mnemotechnics, library science and computer science.