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Was ist Bildwissenschaft? Versuch einer Standort- und Inhaltsbestimmung

We believe that Informatics is the science and technique that deals with the material representation of information, its creation, its storage, its contribution, its transmission, its transformation into different ways of representation and its reception, not considering the biological or technical systems involved or whether the information is represented by a series of signals (temporal or local), images, sounds, chemical stimuli, etc. Computer science is only the part of Informatics that is concerned with the realisation of the processes mentioned above with the help of computers or related technical systems (besides: this aspect tends to push aside the different other aspects lately). There could not be a Computer Science before the idea of the computer; Informatics have a history that leads us back not only to the beginning of human kind, but also into pre-historic biology.