Vorwort - Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen

Rainer Kuhlen The pragmatic added-value of infonnation page 53
Naturally the distinction between knowledge and information which is
fundamental for information science is valid in a eompletely eomputerized
society as weH. Future knowledge-based systems, which are beeoming more
and more powerful as far as automatie knowledge aequisition, knowledge
administration, inferencing and aeeess teehniques are eoneemed, will not
solve the information problem automatically. Information, as we hope to
have demonstrated, depends on social and eognitive circumstanees. We
must eonstruct information systems which take the pragmatie primacy of
information work seriously. This is the only way to add value to existing
knowledge and transform it into active information.