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               invented by Wang Zhen whose contribution is actually the improvement of wooden moveable type.
               The characteristics of moveable type printing was rapid typesetting and cost saving, fit for mass
               printing. However, the printing block was disassembled after printing. Its techniques were more
               complex and demanding than woodblock printing. Accordingly, woodblock printing was more
               appropriate for long-term printing of the same book.
                 Compared with woodblock printing, moveable type printing developed slowly. It did not become
               the mainstream of document duplication in ancient China. Compared with the same period of
               ancient Korea and the end of Middle Ages of Europe, moveable type printing was not used widely,
               and books printed with it were not many due to the characteristics of moveable type printing and
               the social environment in ancient China.




               An essay on the academic thoughts and technical methods with their
               renewing in library and information science
               Fred Y. Ye 〇a ∗

               For clarifying the academic thoughts and technical methods in Library and Information Science
               (LIS), by using classification of outside-introduction and inside-generation, the author points out
               that the “world 3” theory and the “system theory, cybernetics and information theory” are typical
               thoughts and methods from outside LIS and that Ranganathan’s five laws of Library Science,
               Brookes’ theory for Information Science and Garfield’s citation analysis characterize the thoughts
               and methods from inside LIS. Based on the basic principle of minimum supposition and maximum
               extension, it is deduced to generate formal construction via book-man-use and content construction
               via data-information-knowledge, and then derived to propose three directions as data governance,
               information optimization and knowledge analytics, on which ten research topics are suggested,
               including 1) digital library and digital information management, 2) digitalized inheritance of
               knowledge and data-driven academic research, 3) linked data and data intelligence, 4) big-
               data analytics and AI-data analytics, 5) network information organization, 6) multidimensional
               information retrieval, 7) intelligent information analysis, 8) knowledge representation and
               processing, 9) knowledge analytics and visualization, 10) academic evaluation. Considering both
               philosophically and scientifically, the author reveals that there is a feasible approach to renew
               the academic thoughts and technical methods in Library and Information Science, which may
               enlighten LIS research.








               * Correspondence should be addressed to Fred Y. Ye, Email: yye@nju.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-9426-934X
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