The map of SIGs needs to be re-examined every year. Currently relevant potential SIG groups including Digital Libraries, Metrics, and Museum Informatics and visualization are under active consideration not to mention the less obvious topics. Indeed, the whole ASIS world needs a term for Webology. Web science and technology is now driving the information revolution. The Web has also given a new meaning to the word publishing.
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It all begins to look and sound like a huge conglomerate that takes on the essential character of J. D. Bernal's centralized depository combined with H. G. Wells' World Brain and VannevarBush's Memex. Current Contents No. 52, pgs.