Category «Knowledge Management»

The information professions: knowledge, memory, heritage

Bates, M.J. (2015). The information professions: knowledge, memory, heritage. Information Research, 20(1), paper 655. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/20-1/paper655.html (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/…) “Introduction. Along with leading to growth in the numbers of people doing information work, the increasing role of information in our contemporary society has led to an explosion of new information professions as …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Linked Data in Libraries: A Case Study of Harvesting and Sharing Bibliographic Metadata with BIBFRAM

Linked Data in Libraries: A Case Study of Harvesting and Sharing Bibliographic Metadata with BIBFRAME, Karim Tharani. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2015 “By way of a case study, this paper illustrates and evaluates the Bibliographic Framework (or BIBFRAME) as means for harvesting and sharing bibliographic metadata over the web for libraries. BIBFRAME is …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

How to plant a wildlife-friendly garden that doesn’t just sit there and look pretty

Via OnEarth – “If you’re planting a garden for bees and butterflies, don’t use pesticides that will kill bees and butterflies. ” —Sage advice from Kristin Schleiter, senior curator at the New York Botanical Garden, on how to garden for wildlife

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

WaPo – Reporters say federal officials, data increasingly off limit

Access Denied – Paul Farhi: “Tensions between reporters and public information officers — “hacks and flacks” in the vernacular — aren’t new, of course. Reporters have always wanted more information than government officials have been willing or able to give. But journalists say the lid has grown tighter under the Obama administration, whose chief executive …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Library of Congress: Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Information Technology Management Weaknesses

Library of Congress: Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Information Technology Management Weaknesses, GAO-15-315: Published: Mar 31, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 31, 2015. “The Library of Congress has established policies and procedures for managing its information technology (IT) resources, but significant weaknesses across several areas have hindered their effectiveness: Strategic planning: The Library does not …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

New GAO Reports – Federal Protective Service, Info Technology and Copyright Office, Children’s Health Insurance

Federal Protective Service: More Effective Management Needed in Delegating Security Authority to Agencies, GAO-15-271: Published: Mar 31, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 31, 2015: “FPS lacks reliable data, as called for by federal Standards for Internal Control, to accurately identify all the delegations FPS is responsible for managing and overseeing to ensure the protection of federal …

Subjects: Copyright, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Open Government Guide

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: “The Open Government Guide is a complete compendium of information on every state’s open records and open meetings laws. Each state’s section is arranged according to a standard outline, making it easy to compare laws in various states. If you’re a new user of this guide, be sure …

Subjects: Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Importance of Data Occupations in the U.S. Economy

Economics & Statistics Administration, Department of Commerce. By William Hawk, Regina Powers, Economists, and Robert Rubinovitz Deputy Chief Economist Economics and Statistics Administration Office of the Chief Economist. ESA Issue Brief #01 -15. March 12, 2015. “The growing importance of data in the economy is hard to dispute. But what does this mean for workers …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

CEO Cognition in Strategy Research

Chanda, Sasanka Sekhar, CEO Cognition in Strategy Research (March 27, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2586215 “Cognitive considerations arising from the functions of the Chief Executive Officer appear to have been ignored in strategy research. Taking a cue from Freeman’s stakeholder theory, I discuss the constituencies addressed by the CEO in performing his/her job …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

RAND – A Database of U.S. Security Treaties and Agreements

RAND – “Treaties and agreements are powerful foreign policy tools that the United States uses to build and solidify relationships with partners and to influence the behavior of other states. As a result, the overall U.S. portfolio of treaties and agreements can offer insight into the distribution and depth of U.S. commitments internationally, including its …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Productivity of Working Hours

The Productivity of Working Hours, John Pencavel, April 2014. Stanford University and Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn – Germany. “Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

2015 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?

Brookings – Editor’s Note: The introduction to the 2015 Brown Center Report on American Education appears below. Use the Table of Contents to navigate through the report online, or download a PDF of the full report. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: Girls, Boys, and Reading Part II: Measuring Effects of the Common Core Part III: Student …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

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