Informatics is NOT a synonym for information science. In foreign languages (e.g. Emanuela's Italian), it conveys a more general idea of "computing", but here it means "the use of computing to organise information", and is used in relation to particular areas, e.g. libraries, medical science, art, etc., where special processes are used to meet the needs of the users in that area.

There may be arguments over their usage, but not within the industry.

We dealt with technical terms in another ("compactified") thread. Arguing over them has no point, they exist and they're in use. Get over it.


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