READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Intranets offer several facilities that aid knowledge sharing:
• Easy-to-access and use – The use of WWW browsers give a low cost and
easy to use interface to information and applications.
• Universal access to information – Information can be kept on any ‘server’
on the network, and can be accessed from anywhere within the intranet.
• Person to person interaction – Intranets simplify interaction between
people in different locations through electronic mail and computer
conferencing.
• Informal networks – Publishing information and making contact is quick
and informal on an Intranet.
• Access to external information and knowledge – Intranets usually has
gateways to the external Internet, which give access to rapidly growing
global information resources.
Security and personalization
As different users need different views of knowledge base, Personalization
taps into user profiles to control what content is offered. After checking the security to
view a page, personalization can apply the user’s preferences for how and what to
present on the page.
In the current digital and networked knowledge age, the size of information
resources on the Web is growing exponentially. No one really knows exactly how
many Web pages are on the Internet because new Web pages are added every second.
For examples, according to the November 11, 2004 report of the Search Engine
Watch, Goggle claimed to have indexed 8.1 billion Web pages; MSN: 5.0 billion Web
pages; Yahoo: 4.2 billion Web pages; and Ask Jeeves: 2.5 billion Web pages.
Universities and research organizations are themselves knowledge reservoirs.
These highly valued intellectual assets, regardless of whether they are explicit or tacit,
should be inventoried, archived, indexed, frequently updated, and made accessible in
digital form.
10. TIMELY DELIVERY OF INFORMATION
Dr. S.R.Ranganathan’s philosophy of information management has long been
“ the right information to the right person at the right time”. Add to this “ in the right
format” and you have a summary of the role of information professionals.
The information skill helps us to know how and when information is used, its
significance to a process, the most relevant sources and the best means of delivery.
The consolidated from diverse information inputs and delivered at the most
appropriate time is key to leveraging information to build knowledge.
The use of information and explicit knowledge resources becomes
increasingly in research techniques, sources and internal KM tools will become key.
The modern library and information skills play an important part in facilitating
desktop delivery of information and in managing mediated information services, their
utilization across the range of information within the organization, increasing the
value derived from their employment.
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