%0 Journal Article
%T Aproximaciones a la visualizaci車n como disciplina cient赤fica Approaches to visualization as a scientific discipline
%A D谷borah Torres Ponju芍n
%J ACIMED
%D 2009
%I Centro Nacional de Informaci車n de Ciencias M谷dicas
%X Se exponen algunos argumentos de la comunidad cient赤fica acerca de la naturaleza disciplinar de la visualizaci車n, y se defiende la hip車tesis de que es una disciplina cient赤fica consolidada. Se presentan algunos enfoques de an芍lisis y se describen las relaciones que se establecen entre sus ramas fundamentales. Se esboza la vinculaci車n de esta nueva disciplina con la ciencia de la informaci車n, por su car芍cter interdisciplinario. La interpretaci車n y complementaci車n del enfoque hist車rico y epistemol車gico se bas車 en el an芍lisis cualitativo de un conjunto de fuentes de informaci車n proveniente de literatura cient赤fica relevante del campo. Several arguments of the scientific community concerning the disciplinary nature of visualization are outlined, and the hypothesis that it is a consolidated scientific discipline is argued. Some approaches of analysis are introduced and the relations established among its different branches are described. The links of this new discipline with Information Science because of its interdisciplinary nature are summarized. The interpretation and complementation of the historical and epistemological approaches were based in a qualitative analysis of a set of information sources stemmed from relevant scientific literature of this field.
%K Visualizaci車n
%K Visualization
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1024-94352009001200005