IDM May/June 2007

Cover Feature An uneasy affair: Can IT and knowledge management walk the aisle again?

Technology and knowledge management (KM) have enjoyed a less than harmonious relationship since KMs inception.

Proactive Monitoring Helps Protect Reputations and Cut Costs

Don't let anyone tell you that insider trading isn't serious. Anyone found guilty of insider trading can be fined up to $220,000 and sentenced to up to five years' jail for every count.

Internal threat prevention

Budgets have been slashed and youve been told to downsize. An eerie silence falls over the organisation as corridor chatter becomes whispers. Distrust sets in and you suspect anger and retribution will soon follow. The question is: where are your information assets and how are they protected?

Victoria’s Western Water: compliant and paperless

As part of a compliance and knowledge management initiative, Victoria’s Western Water has recently overhauled its document management system and converted over one million documents to digital format. It faced an interesting challenge in removing its paper archives. While VERS permits the destruction of paper archives when using a “Specification 2” certified EDMS, Western Water needed to demonstrate its recovery and back up processes met the Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV) standards.

Higher Education for information Managers

As Records, information and knowledge managers increasingly become critical to the success of an organisation, universities are coming to the table with a variety of courses, dedicated to delivering a highly skilled a professional group of people.

To be preserved for ever

In his research paper released in April 2007, Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, Harvard University academic, Viktor Mayer-Schnberger compares Googles ethos with the KGBs motto applied to information on its political prisoners: To be preserved for ever

Enter the Dragon: XML

Allowing people to talk to machines was the first step. The next was enabling machines to talk to machines. Peter Webb canvasses the evolution of XML and its importance to real time e-commerce and SOA.

Democratic participation ignited by the power of many

Information dissemination is exposing political processes and people, leaving them open to public scrutiny and comment through the power of user-generated content. Angela Priestley explores the latest move towards e-democracy, a process not just granting citizens access to information, but enabling the power of collaboration.

In the IDM vendor ring: Open Source Vs Closed Source

On fight night, IDM put a number of vendors in the online ring to determine the world champion of content and document management solutions. Would it be open source or closed source? Of course there was no world champion, but it did provoke some interesting debate.

Special Feature: Search and the millisecond mile

Enterprise search versus Internet Search

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