Knowledge Management Flashcards
Oder in Library Journal September 15, 1977, “Knowledge Management involves blending a company’s internal and external information and turning it into actionable knowledge via a technology”
Susan DilMattia and Norman
Understanding knowledge management requires an understanding of knowledge and the knowing process and how that differs from information and information management.
Understanding KM
What are those Classic Data to Knowledge Hierarchy?
- Wisdom
- Knowledge
- Information
- Data
FACTS to WISDOM
Haeckel and Noland in 1993
What are those KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Models?2
- Documentalist
- Technologist
- Learner and Communicator
Knowledge management is a new business strategy, but its techniques can be traced to the work of documentalists in the early part of the twentieth century.
History of Information Professionals as Knowledge Managers**
In Europe and America in the first part of the twentieth century, documentalists had grand visions of collecting, codifying and organizing the world’s knowledge for the purpose of world peace.
Documentalists as KNOWLEDGE MANAGERS
the original multimedia professionals.
documentalists
Information Professionals
began the international federation for documentation. He wanted libraries to stop being repositories and to become more dynamic in information transfer.
Paul Otlet
Information Professionals
the Europeans not only collected and codified documents, they developed networks and worked to exchange knowledge among people.
Under the leadership of Otlet
Documentalists and Special Librarians
sometimes called “Madame
Documentation” drew the comparison between American special librarians and European documentalists after a visit to America in 1954.
Suzanne Briet
“In Qu’est-ce que la la documentation? Briet brilliantly defines documents in terms of indexical signs. In this, she was adopting an argument that previous documentalists of her time had suggested in which was present in the cultural air, as she states, through ‘linguists and philosophers,’ surely in the form of structural linguistics and semiotics.
Briet and Documentalists
CAUTION - It would be a mistake though, to define knowledge Management as _____ the domain of _____ and _____.
Solely, Documents, Documentalist
Contentnets have a role to play in KM
As knowledge ______ for tacit knowledge that has been _____
Repositories, Explicit
Contentnets have a role to play in KM
For best practices _____
Databases