Week 6: Table of Contents
Topic/Focus: Information, Assets, and Knowledge Management Systems
- Electronic document management systems
- Digital asset management systems
- Geospatial digital asset management systems
- Portals and knowledge management systems
- Digitized vs. born digital collections
- Long-term management of systems and data, conversion, and migration issues
- Impact of library information systems on your staff/users
- Buy vs. build, hosted vs. locally installed, enterprise vs. open source
Speaker(s)
- Richard Huffine, National Library Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey
Exercises and Assignments
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Readings
Topic-focused Articles
- Driver, Erica and Moore, Connie (March 2008). Information Workplace Platform Vendors Light Up The World of Work. Cambridge: MA: Forrester. (Handout in class.)
- KM World magazine - good resource to see what is "buddling-up" in the industry, what on people's minds. Specifically read David's Snowden's column "Everything is Fragmented."
- Snowden, David (May 2008). "Now, everything is fragmented," KM World magazine. URL: http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News-Analysis/Now,-everything-is-fragmented--48949.aspx (accessed 7/25/2008).
- ____ (June 2008). "The Safe-fail Approach to KM," _KM World_ magazine. URL: http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News-Analysis/%3CI%3EEverything-is-fragmented-%3C-I%3E%3CBR%3EThe-safe-fail-approach-to-KM-49206.aspx (accessed 7/25/2008).
- ____ (July/August 2008). "Build CoPs for Knowledge Flow," _KM World_ magazine. URL: http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News-Analysis/%3CI%3EEverything-is-fragmented-%3C-I%3E%3CBR%3EThe-safe-fail-approach-to-KM-49206.aspx (accessed 7/25/2008).
- Slideshare.net presentation: "What's in Your Digital Landfill?" URL: http://www.slideshare.net/jmancini77/whats-in-your-digital-landfill/ (accessed 6/29/2008).
Team Experience
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