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A changing discipline like informatics can be questioned with respect to its identity and its core concepts and skills. This concern is being expressed by the focus group papers and has led to this editorial paper. We discuss the different paradigms or views with respect to informatics that can be identified and comment on the resulting fragmented approach of the discipline. We advocate a more integral, generic and coherent approach. And we present some preliminary thoughts and notions as input for a search for the identity of the discipline, resulting in a first draft working definition for informatics as a discipline.
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Mulder, F., van Weert, T. (1998). Towards informatics as a discipline: search for identity. In: Mulder, F., van Weert, T. (eds) Informatics in Higher Education. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35166-7_1
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