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AN Lu, CHEN Miaomiao, SHEN Yan & LI Gang / The basic categories and core propositions of information science with Chinese characteristics 099

Proposition No.8: Big data environment, based on data, drives the unified cognition of information
science paradigm and promotes intelligence research in China towards to data-intensive research
paradigm.
Proposition No.9: Intelligence research in China concurrently plays a role of information base and
think tank. Its key job is to turn knowledge into intelligence, the ultimate goal of which is to combine the
knowledge of a subject and intelligence analysis to obtain intelligent information service products.

1.3 Information service

Information service is both the beginning and the end of socialized intelligence work. In fact, it is
an activity to increase the value of information and shorten the response time facing information
explosion. It takes information users as customers and information contents as a service [27] .
Information service is centered on the production and utilization of information and meeting
information users’ needs to serve economic and social development and national needs. What
production and utilization of information do is to collect, evaluate, process, analyze and utilize
information from different information carriers. Meeting information users’ needs is to provide
valuable information to customers. Similar to the development of information organization and
retrieval, information service in China has also developed from the early document lending,
academic exchange and other basic services to SDI service, online query, sci-tech novelty search,
competitive intelligence service, etc., and even to intelligent knowledge service such as digital
library and think tank. In short, the influence of information technology on China’s intelligence
service is obvious.
The current trend towards intelligent intelligence services constantly improves the information
knowledge structure in a balanced cycle, which is from establishing a balance, to breaking the
former balance and then establishing a new balance. The intelligent information technology
[28]
continues to promote the social reform of China’s information service , to support the national
[29]
strategy of innovation-driven development and to promote the upgrading and transformation of
China’s information service model. As mentioned above, traditional information service mainly
focused on gathering, translating, organizing, and sending international scientific and technological
information and knowledge only to the science researchers. The cost of producing intelligence
products was higher. Tracking and analyzing intelligence information passively had information
delay. Its analysis was relatively conservative. With the fast changing of information technology,
digital storage and retrieval, semantic web, big data and other emerging technologies are widely
used in information retrieval, information organization, information dissemination and exchange,
bringing the unprecedented impact to China’s information service. With the connotation and
extension of information service expanded, its ability improved, the information cycle time was
significantly shortened. It also began to develop and transform in the direction of socialization and