Knowledge:
Creation, Organization and Use
ASIS 1999 Annual Conference
October 29 - November 4, 1999
Washington, DC Our ability to transform data into information, and to transform information into knowledge that can be shared, can change the face
of work, education, and life. We have increasing capacity to generate or gather, model, represent and retrieve more complex, crossdisciplinary and multi-format data and ideas from new sources and at varying scales. The
transformational power of information can only be capitalized upon through knowledge acquisition, classification, utilization and dissemination research, tools and techniques.
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his conference looked at current (and imminent) knowledge creation, acquisition, navigation, correlation, retrieval, management and dissemination
practicalities and potentialities, their implementation and impact, and the theories behind the developments. We reviewed the processes, technologies
and tools, such as rights tracking, interfaces and visualization, search engine design and capabilities, and automated indexing and classification. We also
looked at the appropriate or necessary operational policies, relevant legal issues (laws, legislation and the EU Directive), and possible international and domestic policies and regulations.
The conference featured five tracks:
Knowledge Discovery, Capture and Creation:
Capturing tacit knowledge, data mining and other ways to get
knowledge into the system, e.g. capturing the results of
collaboration, expert directories.
Classification and Representation:
Metadata, information visualization, taxonomies, clustering,
indexing.
Information Retrieval:
Engines, browsing versus searching, navigation, data mining.
Knowledge Dissemination:
Communication, publishing, push versus pull.
Ethical, Cultural, Social & Behavioral Aspects:
Information acceptance vs. rejection, behavior modifications,
policies and politics, value assessments, corporate and national
information cultures, knowledge seeking behavior, training,
managing knowledge management.
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