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NEWS FEATURES
Until recently, the publishing models in science, technology, and medicine—the STM market—have been twofold. You published your research results either in a journal sponsored by a professional association or in one produced by a for-profit company. Enter the Public Library of Science (PLoS).
In an era when cyberterrorism is more than just a nuisance, the need to provide effective means to thwart such attacks is critical for today's leading businesses and universities, as well as the general public.
Where should the line between maintaining national security and infringing on personal freedoms be drawn? The Department of Defense has recently added some fuel to the fire in this perpetual debate.
Libraries lead the way in pioneering many digital initiatives, but what the local library implements to manage its ejournal collection or even a more ambitious digital archiving project will rarely scale to enterprise proportions
FEATURED STORIES
"In two years, KM will be a subset of elearning. Or elearning will be a subset of KM." That Gartner prediction, cited in Rosenberg's book e-Learning, was made three years ago. Neither variation has come to pass. Instead, the interactions of the two fields continue to increase and there seems to be a widespread agreement that KM and elearning are converging.
Speedy communication is only one aspect of doing business in real time. Even more important: the ability for execs to find out what's going on under the hood in time to fix problems before they cause something important to blow up.
Until recently, weblogs were primarily the domain of a tightly knit community of personal
bloggers offering their insight and opinions, but they are finding their way into the workplace as organizations begin to recognize their promise as an inexpensive way to communicate information about dynamic events.
To combat the ebb and flow of inforation from internal corporate computing networks, corporations, institutions, and organizations alike have, until now, protected their digital documents, multimedia, and code with perimeter-based systems, but there are a new crop of IRM tools that strive to ease the burder of manageing secure collaboration and allow for the flexibility that the corporate environment requires.
COLUMNS
We are approaching the end of the first decade of intranet deployment. What lessons have been learned in that time? I am tempted to say, "Not many!"
Online micropayment is an idea that just won’t die…nor will it quite come to life. While growing seven-fold in 2002, they still represent a mere 1% of online content revenues.
Google has taught us that it is no longer necessary to go through the effort of defining our information need. We put a word or two into the search box and let a search engine disambiguate the query and provide an answer.
Right now, I'd like to induldge in a little self promotion. But I hope that talking about my new books (and why you might want to pick up a copy) will help my readers understand what library professionals bring to the econtent forum.
Finding one-off statistics and stock photography used to be a pain in the butt for marketing professionals, but times they are a-changin'.
With limited resources and more people to manage, department heads face a dire need to get their message across, foster collaboration, and maximize human resources and intellectual capital.
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FACES OF ECONTENT
"I spend a lot of time serving as a link between EPA staff and the commercial vendors."
PRODUCT REVIEWS
WorX for Word and its companion tool, WorX Studio, provide a novel way to bring Microsoft Word into an XML-based editorial workflow. WorX for Word acts as a plug-in to Word to provide structured authoring of XML. WorX Studio gives users a means to interactively convert unstructured documents into structured XML, and can be used in concert with WorX for Word. The product suite can be very useful for a group of writers who work on a small number of structured document types.
PROFILES
A number of companies purport to help turn information overload into manageable knowledge. In doing so, "value-added aggregator" NetContent strives to keep it simple and protect the email medium without choking it to death.
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