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What is the difference between documentation and information science?

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Please tell the answer of this question pointwise

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Permalink Reply by Chothmal Verma on July 31, 2017 at 20:10
Document Information
Document is written or printed paper or record. Information is something that’s are collected from data.
Document should have an author. Information without authorship is possible / may also exists.
Information enriches a document. Document contains many information.
Document have nature. Information also have nature but they are different.
Document always is factual. Information is not always factual.
A document always should be presented logically. Information should not be always presented logically.
Document contains only a little information. Information contains vast amount of knowledge.
Document use materials. It doesn’t use materials.
It has size and weight. Information does not have size and weight.
It must be published or written. It may or may not published.
Document contains production process and periodicity. Information doesn’t contains these contents.
Permalink Reply by Neeraj Kumar Sinha on August 2, 2017 at 22:17

What is the difference between documentation and information science?

Documentation is written or printed paper to present factual data or information 

Where as Information Science is a subject by which useful information can be inferred with the latest available tools such as BI or other kind of tools.

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