Information Access
Information Access or access to information describing term meanings in economic and social / legal situation.
Economical meaning
First, a department of IT with the aim of simplifying the access and further processing of large and unwieldy amounts of data and information for human users and making them more effective.
The term information access describes a research area at the junction between computer science , information science , language technology and internet technologies. Information Access Technologies (IAT) include applications from the fields of information extraction, text mining , machine translation, text categorization, enterprise search and Web 2.0 .
Social / legal significance
Second, to ensure that everyone can participate in the information society and have access to relevant and public information. In discussions about free access to information and information strategies, information access is also understood as guaranteeing free and open access to information. Therefore, the term information access is also closely related to terms such as B. Copyright , Open Source , Privacy and Information Security . In the public sector, z. B. Copyright and patent law created corresponding regulations.