Organization Of Information Resources Research Articles

국제기구 지식정보원과 국내 도서관 활용 현황에 관한 연구

본 연구는 국제기구 지식정보원과 국내 도서관들의 국제기구 정보원의 입수 및 활용 현황을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 유엔 산하 국제기구 및 전문기구 59개, 다자간 국제기구 29개, 지역기구 27개 등 총 115개 기구를 선정한 후 이 기구들의 정보정책과 정보원을 조사하였다 그리고 국내 4년제 대학의 대학도서관 국가도서관. 그리고 일정 규모 이상의 전문도서관을 대상으로 국내 국제기구 정보원의 활용 현황을 조사하였다. 설문을 통해 국제기구 정보원의 소장현황과 기탁도서관 지정여부. 소장하고 있는 국제기구 출판물의 주제분야, 자료관리 및 이용현황, 그리고 국제기구 정보원에 대한 수요도 및 요구도를 분석하였으며, 분석된 결과는 향후 국가 차원의 공식적인 국제기구 정보유통기관의 기초 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다. This study is designed to identify the knowledge information resources of international organizations and the current situation and problems of gaining and using the information resources of international organizations. The researcher made a selection of a total of 115 organizations: 59 international organizations and Professional organizations under the jurisdiction of UN, 29 intergovernmental organizations, and 27 regional organizations. The questionnaire subjects were domestic university libraries. national libraries. and professional libraries of a certain size. The researcher took a look at the current collection situations of international organization information resources, the designation of trusted libraries. the subject areas of Possessed international organizational publications. the current situations of material management and use, the demand for international information resources. The findings will hopefully be used as basic materials for the service model of official international integrate information organization.

Concept Map-Based Knowledge Modeling: Perspectives from Information and Knowledge Visualization

This article explores the idea of knowledge modeling as defined at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. The notion of knowledge modeling is described to illustrate a particular method by which concept maps might be employed to create a useful structure and organization of other information and knowledge resources. Knowledge model structuring and navigational schemes afforded by the approach are described and illustrated. An example of a knowledge model pertaining to weather forecasting on the Gulf coast of the United States is presented to illustrate these ideas. Examples of how information visualization techniques have been and might be applied to the knowledge modeling scheme are discussed. Ideas pertaining to how knowledge models might serve as learning resources are briefly presented throughout. The article concludes with additional discourse regarding specific ways in which the knowledge modeling approach might be employed to create, present, and organize effective electronic learning resources.

An exploration of wireless computing risks

Wireless computing, as a way of providing mobile services, has been growing steadily during the past few years. While wireless communications offer organizations and users many benefits such as portability, flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation costs; on the other hand, risks inherent and exacerbated by wireless connectivity are widely reported, wherein networks are open to intruders who may cause unwanted consequences to an organization's information resources. Hence, understanding these risks will help protect against unforeseen threats, delays and costs. This paper aims at the development of a taxonomy for wireless computing risks. Six levels are identified including risks associated with the users, mobile devices, wireless networks, wireless applications, the Internet and the corporate gateway. The findings show that there is a need for systematic studies on wireless risk assessment and management. The implications of these findings for both researchers and practitioners are discussed.

2.1.1 Using a Knowledge Management Tool to Improve U.S. EPA's Enterprise Architecture

AbstractEnterprise architecture (EA) is a process for ensuring that an organization's information resources are aligned with its goals and business. EA can be used for several purposes, such as improving business processes that are performed across an organization and integrating information management resources. For EA to achieve its potential, it is important to use an EA tool for housing and analyzing the organization's information. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using such a knowledge management tool, called the Architecture Repository and Tool (ART), that is based on Metis software from Computas. ART can be used to identify which organizations perform the same business processes and to highlight opportunities for storing commonly used data. This paper illustrates how ART is a knowledge management tool that can reveal an organization's gaps, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.

Expert-Finding Systems for Organizations: Problem and Domain Analysis and the DEMOIR Approach

Computer systems that augment the process of finding, in an organization or worldwide, the appropriate expert for a given problem are becoming more feasible than ever as a result of the prevalence of corporate intranets and the Internet. In this article, we investigate such systems in 2 parts. First, we explore the expert-finding problem in depth, review and analyze existing systems in this domain, and suggest a domain model that can serve as a framework for design and development decisions. Second, on the basis of our analyses of the problem and solution spaces, we bring to light the gaps that remain to be addressed. Finally, after this two-part investigation, we present our approach, called DEMOIR (dynamic expertise modeling from organizational information resources), which is a modular architecture for expert-finding systems that is based on a centralized expertise-modeling server but also incorporates decentralized components for expertise information gathering and exploitation.

Remote Access Security Issues

Remote access and the Internet have become security dilemmas for information protection professionals today. Their rapid growth has been fueled by several factors, including management, employees, customers, and government intervention. With this increased connectivity comes new threats to your organization's information resources.

Promoting Internet-Based Teaching and Learning Worldwide

The author, who has spent many years transforming the University of Aalborg, Denmark, into a modern Net-based university, reflects on how the information and communications technologies (ICTs) should be introduced into traditional universities so that the resulting transformations will be irreversible and successful in the broadest possible sense. The introduction of the ICTs and the resulting institutional transformation, she argues, must involve all institutional constituencies. The leadership in each case must be aware of the successes and failures of other institutions in regard to ICT adoption through the information resources of such international organizations as the International Association of University Presidents, the International Association of Universities, UNESCO, etc. Consultants representing such organizations must make an effort to understand the cultural and economic frameworks of the institutions that they advise and assist. The successful adoption of the ICTs in a higher education ins...

New disruptive technologies: the information professional’s role

It is noted how the traditional role of the information professional has been changed by the responsibility for assessing and introducing the wide range of new information technologies (IT). In addition to considering the content and value to the organization of new information resources, information professionals must also consider the readiness of the organization to accept their introduction and the willingness of employees themselves to adopt or experiment with IT and accept change. Information professionals are also directly involved in the introduction of new technologies which have the potential to change the market-place completely and to either displace existing products or services, or destroy the industries completely. Recommends the adoption of the Technology Life Cycle as the most suitable framework for enabling them to assess the value of new information technologies to their organization and the likelihood of their uptake. Ideally, the framework should enable them to identify suitable clients for a new product or service, as well as provide a benchmark for evaluating the impact of new, disruptive technologies on their business. Illustrates the argument with particular reference to disruptive technologies of the type which may cause cataclysmic changes, rendering obsolete many of the company’s existing products and processes: Internet applications; mobile information and communication (wireless handheld devices); electronic books; intelligent agents; and emerging technologies.

Potential of bibliographic tools to organize knowledge on the Internet: The use of dewey Decimal Classification scheme for organizing web-based information resources

Possibilities are being explored to use traditional bibliographic tools, like Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), Library of Congress Classification (LCC), Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), and Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), to improve the organization of information resources on the Internet. The most recent edition of DDC, with its enhanced features, has greater potential than other traditional approaches. A review of selected Web sites that use DDC to organize Web resources indicates, however, that the full potential of the DDC scheme for this purpose has not been realized. While the review found that the DDC classification structure was more effective when compared with other knowledge organization systems, we conclude that DDC needs to be further enhanced to make it more suitable for this application. As widely reported in the professional literature, OCLC has conducted research on the potential of DDC for organizing Web resources. Such research, however, is experimental and should be supplemented by empirical studies with user participation.

New Method to Organize Information Resources on Network

New Method to Organize Information Resources on Network

Executive information systems: An evaluation of current UK practice

Executive information systems (EIS) have become an established part of the information systems infrastructure for large organizations. A review of how UK organizations have applied EIS was undertaken, the results from the study are presented and discussed. The findings show many successes in the implementation of EIS, such as the accessibility to managers of the organization's information resources. The monitoring of internal activity by middle management was identified as the principle application of EIS. However, to deliver their full potential, EIS need to be used by senior management to analyse the organization's strategic goals. By comparing the development methods in the study with the theoretical and experiential approaches shown in the literature, the paper shows how the techniques currently utilized could be improved to provide executives with better technological support.

Building subject‐specific guides to Internet resources

Librarians can provide leadership in the era of networked information retrieval by developing subject‐specific guides to Internet resources. The traditional skills of librarianship which include the identification, selection, evaluation, description, and organization of information resources are proving to be highly valuable in the Internet environment. A collection of these topical guides is currently accessible through the Clearinghouse for Subject‐Oriented Internet Resource Guides. The success of this Clearinghouse demonstrates the demand for value‐added collections of Internet information. Provides step‐by‐step instructions for selecting a topic, conducting online research, and building a useful subject‐specific guide.

Information resource management

Information-based organizations depend upon computer databases and information systems for their ongoing operation and management. Information Resource Management (IRM) is a program of activities directed at making effective use of information technology within an organization. These activities range from global corporate information planning to application system development, operation, and maintenance and support of end-user computing. Numerous approaches to specific IRM activities have been proposed. They remain disjoint, however, and, hence globally ineffective.A significant reason for inability to integrate IRM activities is the failure to adequately define the information resource. What is it that must be effectively managed? This paper addresses this issue. It applies data modeling concepts to the problem of managing organizational information resources. A data model is developed to support and integrate the various IRM activities. This model formally defines the information resource and the data needed to manage it. It provides a basic ingredient for effective Information Resource Management.

Information Resources Management for End User Computing

Four hypotheses of organizational factors affecting the extent of end user computing EUC were investigated by means of a field study. The study encompassed 108 users in 21 organizations. The major findings in the data presented here are that the extent of EUC is closely associated with organizational size, DP resources, top management use, and users needs. A model is presented integrating these factors within a framework of organizational information resources.

Are information centers responsive to end user needs?

End user computing (EUC) has developed into a critical part of the information resource of the organization. The information center (IC), an essential support and control mechanism for EUC, has also become a critical component of the organization's information resource. ICs support the end users by providing services for them. Our study surveyed 126 ICs to determine which services they presently offer, which ones they do not offer, and which ones they previously offered but discontinued. In addition, the study collected data on services requested by the end users. This paper furnishes a definitive catalog of services offered by ICs and compares them with the services requested by end users. The findings illustrate the responsiveness of ICs to their end user communities. Even though ICs typically offer a broad variety of services, there are differences in the services most offered by ICs and services most requested by end users.

InfoMapper: information resource inventory tool

InfoMapper provides a framework, complete with forms and reports, for gathering and organizing an inventory of an organization's information resources. InfoMapper Release 1.2 is for use with IBM/PCs, ATs, and compatible computers with at least 640 kb of memory (1 or 2 Mb preferred) and a hard disk with at least 3 Mb available. The package sells for $595. The vendor is Information Management Press, PO Box 19166, Washington DC 20036, USA. Tel: +1 (202) 293 5519.

ISSPSS: A decision support system for information systems strategic planning

This paper describes a Decision Support System (DSS) for strategic planning of Information Systems (IS) named ISSPSS (Information Systems Strategic Planning Support System) and the experience of its implementation. The system addresses three core issues of the IS strategic planning process: identifying the importance and role of information systems in the organization, defining IS objectives based on organizational objectives and critical success factors and formulating hardware distribution policy. The system's output is designed to guide an organization in formulating a policy for organizational information resource.

Model management and structured modeling: the role of an information resource dictionary system

Models have historically occupied an ambiguous position within organizations. Management acceptance of management science and operations research models for decision-making has lagged far behind technical advances in these areas. Structured modeling has emerged as a unifying approach to the modeling process with potential to reduce this ambiguity. Structured modeling is primarily oriented to the individual, however. A way of incorporating structured modeling into the organizational framework via existing information resource channels is discussed. A relational model is presented for an information resource dictionary system (IRDS). This IRDS model is then extended to accommodate representation of structured models. This extension of the IRDS can answer queries about structured modeling as well as model instances. The concept of an active IRDS is introduced and an example presented of how an active IRDS can be linked with an optimization algorithm. The conclusion is that the IRDS is a suitable vehicle for incorporating model management and structured modeling as part of an organization's information resource management environment.

Information Resources Management for End User Computing

Four hypotheses of organizational factors affecting the extent of end user computing EUC were investigated by means of a field study. The study encompassed 108 users in 21 organizations. The major findings in the data presented here are that the extent of EUC is closely associated with organizational size, DP resources, top management use, and users needs. A model is presented integrating these factors within a framework of organizational information resources.

The incremental benefits of changes in the timeliness of information

The managers of all purposeful organizations rely on historical information as an aid to decision making. Information enables managers to formulate expectations about the future. Less timely information is generally inferior because the manager's expectations will contain greater error; and the operating results obtained may therefore be less satisfactory. The timeliness of information often can be improved by incurring incremental systems costs. However, the degree to which such improvements will produce benefits is uncertain. This research uses modeling to explore the relationship between information timeliness and the benefits derived by implementing optimal decisions based upon the information. The most significant finding is that the shape of this relationship is dependent upon the scope of the action set available to the decision maker. If a continuous range of options is available (such as a pricing decision), then the relationship is linear. If only a few discrete options are present (as in linear programming) the relationship is more complex but describable. The decision maker is therefore found to be in a position to offer guidance to the systems designer which will facilitate enhancement of the benefit/cost characteristics of the organization's information resource.