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information management

organisational activity concerning information lifecycle
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Summary

information management is an academic discipline[1]. It draws 1,148 Wikipedia views per month (academic discipline category, ranking #226 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of management[3]
  • Subclass of: information science[4]
  • Commons category: Information management[5]
  • Has part(s): information processing[6], Tiedonhallinta[7], knowledge management[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Information management[9]
  • Different from: information engineering[10], content management[11], information technology management[12]
  • Practiced by: information manager[13], information professional[14]
  • P10203: 1802[15]
  • P14541: 3AdidF[16]

Why It Matters

information management has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Alexander W. Roos Arxivar collections management content management Cyrus Shahabi data management David A. Montague David Karger Dickson K. W. Chiu Ed Williams Eldr (mobile application) enterprise information management Health information management Health Information Management Heinrich Christian Mayr Holger Nohr information and development information lifecycle management information management information science Jan Vanthienen Judith Hurwitz Loren Terveen Lukáš Kintr machine pattern analysis Māori information and knowledge management systems Marek Hlásny Marijn Janssen Martin "Joockey" Leskovjan Norman Paton

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Formigable · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → information engineering, content management, information technology management
    Basisklassifikation → 06.35
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: information technology management"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3AdidF
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002631-informacni-management
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002631-informacni-management, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → —
    Tdkiv term id → 000000143
    Subclass of → information science
    Instance of → academic discipline, type of management
    + 71 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 9815, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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