“…Boyd Rayward -- Understanding the information domain : the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster -- On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland -- A tale of two narratives : prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller -- The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann -- Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet : European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem -- Towers and globes : architectural and
epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard -- Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web : Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel -- Networking knowledge before the information society : the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. …”
Published 2014“…Thus, for a researcher, ontology and epistemology are important because they have consequences for the possibilities and limits of the research methods, techniques, and analyses that they employ. …”
“…It offers a conceptualization of such approaches as including a distinct ontology, epistemology and methodology. While feminist literature on the European Union is diverse, all such literature sheds light on the gendered process of European integration. …”