Category: Digital Libraries
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If you don’t write it down, it will never happen
Last week, the blog post was about adages, and how they represent lessons learned. This week, after reading about codification and economics, I’m looking at how people encode knowledge. This week’s articles (see Bibliography, below) have returned to the idea of somehow encoding knowledge; which, because we are all unique individuals, ultimately become unique knowledge…
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Spieglein, spieglein an der wand… wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?
Today’s post could rightly be called a reflection. I’ve been spouting off about big data, documenting it all, tacit knowledge (that stuff that everyone knows but no one writes down), web technologies, etc., etc., etc. So naturally in the Knowledge Management class we have to read and review a few articles from the syllabus (pick…
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The bishop’s mitre
Xie and Matusiak introduce several different definitions of digital libraries in their book, Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice. One of the most workable definitions of a digital library I found was the one by (Bishop, et al., 2003) that digital libraries are “sociotechnical systems – networks of technology, information, documents, people, and practices”. Like…