Erkundung und Erforschung. Alexander von Humboldts Amerikareise Zusammenfassung   Ahnlich wie Adalbert Stifters Erzahler im Roman xe2x80x9eNachsommerxe2x80x9c verband A. v. Humboldt auf seiner Amerikareise Erkundung und Erforschung, Reiselust und Erkenntnisstreben. Humboldt hat sein doppeltes Ziel klar benannt: Bekanntmachung der besuchten Lander, Sammeln von Tatsachen zur Erweiterung der physikalischen Geographie. Der Aufsatz ist in funf Abschnitte gegliedert: Anliegen, Route, Methoden, Ergebnisse, Auswertung.   Abstract   In a similar way as Adalbert Stifteru0027s narrator in the novel xe2x80x9cLate summerxe2x80x9d A. v. Humboldt combined exploration with research, fondness for travelling with striving for findings during his travel through South America. Humboldt clearly indicated his double aim: to report on the visited countries, to collect facts in order to improve physical geography. The treatise consists of five sections: object, route, methods, results, evaluation.

Still Minding the Gap? Reflecting on Transitions between Concepts of Information in Varied Domains This conceptual paper, a contribution to the tenth anniversary Special Issue of Information, gives a crossdisciplinary review of general and unified theories of information. A selective literature review is used to update a 2013 article on bridging the gaps between conceptions of information in different domains, including material from the physical and biological sciences, from the humanities and social sciences including library and information science, and from philosophy. A variety of approaches and theories are reviewed, including those of Brenner, Brier, Burgin and Wu, Capurro, CardenasGarcia and Ireland, Hidalgo, Hofkirchner, Kolchinsky and Wolpert, Floridi, Mingers and Standing, Popper, and Stonier. The gaps between disciplinary views of information remain, although there has been progress, and increasing interest, in bridging them. The solution is likely to be either a general theory of sufficient flexibility to cope with multiple meanings of information, or multiple and distinct theories for different domains, but with a complementary nature, and ideally boundary spanning concepts.