"The re-use and processing of reported information is ubiquitous in almost
every field of activity because it is crucial to any progress.
However, information processing is observed to be widely executed
in a more or less dilettantish manner.
Many newcomers enter the field of information science with a feeling
of competence but without acquiring a sufficient background
because the field appears "deceptively simple" to them,
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