1. Knowledge Management By: Duc Phan Morgan Murphy

2. Overview Intro to Knowledge Management (KM) Types of KM Technologies Meta Data Meta Data Harvesting Software Products Conclusion

3. Intro to Knowledge Management Knowledge Management (KM): – the way organizations gather, manage, and use their knowledge. – Redundancy of work. Waste of resources Dot com burst helped transition KM to the web – Digital Libraries

4. Types of KM Technologies Digital Library (DL) – A library that contains documents in machine readable format. Similar to traditional library catalog. Digital Asset Management (DAM) – The process of organizing digital files, such as images, documents, videos, and presentations. – Greater variety of tools.

5. Meta Data Meta data: – Literally means “data about data” – Dublin Core Standards for how you make meta data available A standard that consist of 15 meta data elements – Title, creator, subject, etc.

6. Meta Data Harvesting Federated harvesting – Extract data each time a request has been made Pros > Instant info + no storage Cons > High bandwidth usage = higher cost Periodic harvesting – Data is extracted and stored once a day Pros > Less frequent = low bandwidth usage Cons > Storage space (database) + hire additional employees

7. Example Periodic harvesting – National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Meta library Exposed library meta data is harvested by NSDL daily Federated harvesting – MERLOT Course ware

8. Software Products Different ways to create, store, manage, protect and share data: – Fedora Not Linux Distribution Open source program for managing and delivering digital content – NSDL built on Fedora – Documentum By EMC Nike uses this to manage all its marketing information – DSpace HP + MIT

9. Conclusion To avoid double work, a knowledge management system should be utilized. Critical for large companies with a wide range of data

10. Questions?