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The article reports on a paper on linked data solutions titled "Knowledge=Information in Context, which was written by Stefan Gradmann, a specialist in web-based knowledge from the collaborative digital library project Europeana.

Offers advice in shifting information management systems from paper to imaging. Reduction of retrieval time of electronic images; Consideration of possible enhancements to a proposed application process; Integration of complementary technologies; Ability of document imaging systems to simultaneously route images to several processing stations; Document management tips.

Offers advice in establishing and installing electronic document imaging systems. Need to identify beforehand the business objective of the departments who will use the system; Establishment of an imaging committee; Need to train the user community on the functions offered by the system; Identification of the current information system architecture in full.

The article discusses the significant role of records management (RM) platform in tackling volumes of paper records. It cites the results of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) research which show the increase of paper records' volume by 42 percent of organizations despite the discussion of movement of electronic records. It also notes the benefits of Lexmark International Inc.'s Perceptive Software solution employed by Ontario-based Markham Stouffville Hospital to manage its workflow.

The article reports that reference manager ReadCube purchased Papers from Springer Nature, where the deal sought to combine Papers reference manager into products like ReadCube Connect.

The article presents a comparison of online information managers including EndNote X1 from Thomson Scientific, Quosa, Papers and the Firefox browser add-on Zotero.

Features several document-management software launched at the Association for Information and Image Management show in San Francisco, California. Saros Corp.'s Saros Mezzanine version 3.5; Keyfile Corp.'s Keyfile 3.0; PC Docs Inc.'s Docs Open version 2.5.

The article reports on the dynamics of submission of papers and studies by members of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). According to the author, SLA has been accepting papers from its members every annual conference for thirty years. One basic requirement is that the author must be a member of SLA. Abstracts are chosen based on ingenuity of the content as well as its applicability.

The article discusses how the installation of a records management system from SmeadSoft enabled the Engineering Department of Palm Beach County, Florida to reduce the amount of hard copy records in storage and makes all files easier to locate. It outlines the features and capabilities of the records management software. The county has decided to implement the records management system as a Web-based program for all its departments.

Features the digital records management system of Marion County, Oregon. Features of the Document Imaging software employed in the system; Other software employed; Capabilities of the system.

Presents information on the computer software used by Lorain County, Ohio's Department of Jobs and Family Services (DJFS) for the filing of welfare application forms, developed by CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants. Background on the welfare assistance provided by the county; Details on the manual process of welfare applications at DJFS; Benefits of the software.

Describes how Metrohealth can cut operating costs through workflow changes and technology upgrades. Information systems (IS) support required by printers shared by several users; Changes outlined by director of information technology and network operations Dave Plevniak.

Reports on the search for electronic mail system security standards by the Association for Information & Image Management (AIIM) during its Digital Document Conference in San Francisco, California on January 1996. Goals for binding the metadata about a document to the actual document; Emphasis on document trustworthiness; Comments from conference participants.

The article focuses on Operations which is the heart and soul of our industry, and the pros working in operations not only understand every department's mechanics but they also often contribute new thinking and concepts to help realize more profits Topics discussed include Editha is an amazing Customer Service Rep (CSR), and CSRs can make or break a printing company's workflow; and the views of JANE MARTINACHE Operations and Ad Manager Washington City Paper, on it.

The article looks at content sharing in newsrooms. Across the U.S., shared-content arrangements are emerging among dailies with no common ownership, as a way to reduce staff cuts and save money. Signs of the Oklahoma-Tulsa World deal began appearing in late January 2009 in both print and online, with bylines from each paper appearing atop reports in the other. But not everyone in the state is happy about the Oklahoma-Tulsa workd shared-content deal.

The article provides information on the way U.S. employees dispatch digital content on a daily basis. According to a 2003 study done by the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, only a scant 0.01% of the nearly five exabytes of information created in 2002 was stored on paper, Nearly all the rest of it--92%--was created or stored in a digital format. As computers go beyond being mere data portals, workers are starting to view them as means to even greater interactivity, whether it's with the content, the client, or the cubicle next door--wherever that next door might be.

This article addresses issues pertaining to the unsatisfactory performance of the information technology (IT) infrastructure project of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as of March 2005. Some FBI agents ruefully refer to the trilogy project, a massive initiative to modernize the aging technology infrastructure of the FBI, as the Tragedy project. It certainly has all the earmarks of tragedy: the best intentions, catastrophic miscommunication, staggering waste. Trilogy, as the name suggests, had three parts: an enterprise-wide upgrade of desktop hardware and software; deployment of a modern network infrastructure; and an integrated suite of software for entering, finding, sharing, and analyzing case information. In a congressional hearing in February 2005, FBI Director Robert Mueller was careful to note that the first two parts of Trilogy have been completed: no less than 30,000 computers, 4,000 printers, 1,600 scanners, 465 servers, and 1,400 routers were deployed as of April 2004. After more than four years of hard work and half a billion dollars spent, however, Trilogy has had little impact on the antiquated case-management system of the FBI, which remains a morass of mainframe green screens and vast stores of paper records. INSET: A Peek at the Plans.

This article focuses on the publishing paradigm of the University of California (UC). As digital technologies evolved and campus budgets constricted, UC librarians, researchers and administrators began acknowledging three challenges that could not be ignored; the economics of publishing were changing rapidly, scholarly communication needed to innovate and sustaining comprehensive collections was becoming increasingly harder to do. UC representatives began conceptualizing a plan to harness the system's resources at a time when the budget was very bad and the possibilities of technology seamed endless. The mission of the California Digital Library is to provide a centralized framework to efficiently share materials held by UC, offer greater and easier access to digital content and join with researchers in developing new tools and innovations for scholarly communication. The eScholarship Repository, a project of the eScholarship initiative project, offers faculty a central location for depositing any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating UC research unit. The repository enables the rapid creation, management and dissemination of journals, peer-reviewed series, working papers and other forms of scholarship generated by UC researchers.

The article offers information on the Information Today Inc.'s first Taxonomy Boot Camp London, held October 18–19, 2017 a program showcased the range of impacts that taxonomies have on the ability to find content in an organization's repositories, intranet, and external facing websites and portals. It mentions that the event included workshops, short presentations on best practices, posters, and formal papers.

The article discusses the developments of multichannel data capture. According to the author, invoice and handwriting recognition have both set out, benefiting from today's more sophisticated software. Growing use of distributed capture is also evident, saving the time and expenditure of physically moving paper to a centralized location. The author also sees online data capture grew, primarily in areas where legacy papers is not involved.

The article presents an interview with Chief Marketing Officer Jeff MacGregor of the scientific knowledge network and aggregator Meta. Topics include Meta's offering of artificial intelligence-enabled data services that help to make scientific papers more discoverable, the accuracy of its data services such as Bibliometric Intelligence, and Meta's business model of subscription, or data as a service.

The article reports on the initiative of White Electrical Construction Co. to adopt PaperVision Enterprise as its enterprise content management (ECM) system from Digitech Systems Inc. It notes that White Electrical aims to implement an electronic solution to provide rapid information access and built-in disaster recovery. The new system allows White Electrical to save $80,000 on paper handling, reduce 60% of paper storage space and offer remote information access for branch offices.

The article evaluates information technology products including Global CONNECT print-on-demand technology from Ingram Content Group, Inc., PaperStream cloud based app from Pubget, Inc. and iPeerReview app for mobile access for submitted papers to AIP Publishing.

The article focuses on issues related to information overload and discusses the views of notable people about it. It states the term "information overload" was coined after the term "sensory overload." It was first used in the conference paper by Donald B. Lindsley in June 1958. It also mentions that the concept of sensory overload was first found in an article by Georg Simmel entitled "The Metropolis and Mental Life".

The article focuses on the significance of knowledge management in the software tools that help companies improve their energy management and energy in buildings. It says that knowledge management promotes efficiency and optimal use of resources, which often reduces the amount of energy required to achieve a given goal. The author says many knowledge management solutions, such as records management (RM) and enterprise content management (ECM), reduce the use of paper.

The article discusses several methods of corporate espionage, as well as information on how to identify and stop it. Tailgating is considered one of the most successful ways of infiltrating an organization. Once inside, spies can photocopy papers found on unattended desks or download data in a laptop from an empty meeting room. It is recommended to implement a policy that will not allow individuals access to the company building unless they can prove that they are employees. Other methods of spying mentioned include posing as an employee or visitor, and phishing.

The article focuses on the communications and information processing systems at St. Clare's Hospital in Weston, Wisconsin, one of the first hospitals in the nation to completely digitalize those services. Patients can view their own charts and receive information on medication on flat-screen monitors by their beds. Doctors carry wireless-enabled tablet personal computers instead of using paper charts. All television, telephone, and information processing is run by a single unfied network.

The article reports that mortgage lending industry has encountered the same data breaches as in other parts of the economy, which have resulted primarily from lost tapes and missing and stolen computers rather than outright hacks into data systems. The potential for data loss is becoming more of a problem as more business turns electronic and moves away from the paper-based system that many baby boomers used when they bought their first homes. The lenders are now under pressure from regulators, business partners, and customers to protect customer records.

This article discusses several issues related to claims processing in the insurance industry. The insurance industry made great strides more than a decade ago when it began using imaging rather than paper for its claims processing. That was the situation faced by RLI, an insurance company that began with a unique mission of providing insurance coverage for contact lens owners. RLI later expanded into other specialty areas of property and casualty insurance where the risks are not covered by standard policies. RLI began to search for a new claims processing solution, investigating 10 different software packages. The search encompassed a variety of options from high-end, horizontal applications to vertical solutions focused on insurance. One of the recurring information management issues in insurance is that claims and supporting information come in through many channels, and need to be linked together for a particular case. INSET: Easter and more convenient..

This article reports that ovum.com have long nagged about the importance of properly managed digital information, and the need for that message to reach a much wider audience. They intend to keep up the nagging. The problem is, it is such a dull topic that keeping anyone's interest for more than a few minute scan be tough. At the end of the day, content and document management are the digital equivalent of filing paper documents in cabinets and then retrieving the documents at a later date. Within an enterprise, it is at least technically feasible to store all content in a single repository, but that is unlikely to happen. The number of storage locations within an enterprise from desktop and laptop hard drives, through the network, to the database make it a complex, idealistic and difficult path to follow.

The article offers ways to expand digital dashboard usage while building trust among users. Managers at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Inc. used to show up at their monthly meetings armed with several pounds of paper documents such as departmental performance reports and printouts of e-mails. The managers eventually agreed to lighten their load by regularly tracking a total of 45 business performance measures. After watching the managers bounce between the two extremes, a group from IT stepped in and showed several corporate vice presidents and the chief operating officer a demo of a digital dashboard, which pulls data from multiple sources to graphically present select performance metrics on a single screen. The executives took to it almost immediately. What happened at Blue Cross is a chief information officer's dream of how to do dashboards right. Here is how some smart companies addressed issues of expanding dashboard usage beyond the executive level, building trust among all users and ensuring that dashboard gauges are indeed tracking and displaying the information that users need to do their jobs and run a profitable business. First is generating traffic. Lands' End Inc. started using dashboards in 2002, launching what it calls a workbench for tracking inventory. In addition to posting summary data about inventory on hand and on order from suppliers, the initial implementation of the retailer's workbench also issued alerts about potential shortages based on trends in incoming customer orders. Second is ensuring accuracy. Delivering the right information to run the business first and foremost requires that the right people outside of Information technology (IT) select and set key performance indicators, which are the very heart of any dashboard. Once key performance measures are established, the most important thing for IT is to realize that they will almost certainly change, and so will the dashboards.

Planning is already underway for Information Today, Inc.'s (ITI) fall conferences: Internet Librarian and KMWorld & Internet Librarian will be held Nov. 3-5 in Monterey, Calif. Now it's April and springtime in New York. If you haven't been to InfoToday (the old National Online Meeting) in the last few years, take a close look at the" new and improved" conference as it has evolved under the direction of Dick Kaser(Dick Kaser), ITI's vice president of content. The National Online Meeting used to be packed with dry papers on narrow topics, and the program often played second fiddle to the wheeling, dealing, and meetings going on in the exhibit hall, coffee shop, and elsewhere.

Reports on the multimedia services offered by on-line financial information providers for customers. News clearinghouses; Radio and still images; Interactive editions of business papers; Economics of service availment.

Presents results of a survey of readers' choice of records management sources for different product types. Electronic document imaging systems or software; Paper document filing; Micrographic or electronic imaging equipment; Document tracking or records management software; Mobile or mechanized vertical filing; All-around customer satisfaction.

The article discusses the management of consumer information at companies, presenting the comments of the Direct Marketing Association of Singapore chairwoman Lisa Watson concerning the storing of customer data on recycled paper, feedback cards, and computers as of 2014.

The article focuses on the electronic discovery (e-discovery) process in electronic information management or governance. It states that e-discovery has been an important concern during the transition of corporations from paper documents to electronic documents. It mentions four key capabilities of e-discovery which include understanding and securing information, automation and enforcement, and protection and control.

The article reports on methods, including paying attention to what matters most, viewing information in context and knowing one's legal obligations, that employees in the information technology industry can use to manage the reality of juggling digital data and physical data at the same time in what is known as a hybrid records environment. The challenges that are involved with managing both paper and electronic records are discussed.

The article reports on the development of SmeadSoft's Records Management software which is used by the city officials in Carlsbad, California. According to SmeadSoft, the software allows record managers to enhance service by providing instant access to file locations, status and user requests. Meanwhile, the software helps Carlsbad to make a centralized electronic repository of information on electronic and paper records.

The article reports on the records management system set up by Tower Software in Coral Gables, Florida, that would capture, manage and secure all electronic and physical records. The system allows staffers to convert paper records to electronic records, stores them in a widely accessible format, and automates the city's records retention schedule. Once that system was nearing completion in late 2007 city officials already had decided to develop a dashboard to easily access information in the records retention system as well as all the databases.

The article reports on the implementation of a fleet management solution by Northwest Food Products Transportation (NFPT), which allows the company to save $500,000 worth of fuel costs in the U.S. Using Cadec software's fleet management solution, NFPT has been able to eliminate paper through electronic logging, which allows the company to automatically track en-route data. Cadec has also allowed NFPT to monitor how well its drivers use progressive shifting.

This article defines several terms related to information services. "Blamestorming" means a group process where participants analyze a failed project and look for scapegoats other than themselves. "Adminisphere" refers to the upper levels of management where big, impractical, and counterproductive decisions are made. "Electronify" is the process of turning paper-based data into electronic or digital form. "Critical path" refers to a list of tasks necessary to complete a project.

The article reports on that Google Inc. is planning to offer electronic health services. Marissa Mayer, the company's vice president of search products and user experience, revealed that the move is part of Google's plan to support the storage and movement of electronic health records. She stresses that paper-based medical records are impractical, keeping them in digital formats can be more useful as it helps people control their own records. According to her, the project is a huge endeavor and that a lot of breakthroughs in digitalization is necessary before its success.

The article reports on the announcement made by Kofax Image Products Inc. concerning the launch of the Document Exchange Server, which is designed to simplify the exchange of documents and information between standard document input devices within an organization and transactional business processes. Moreover, the power to utilize multiple document input devices allows organizations to standardize on a single system to process both paper and electronic documents.

The article reports on the electronic periodical "Information Research." It covers a wide array of subjects including environmental scanning, virtual reference services and the enduring nature of traditional news sources. It contains peer-reviewed article and working papers as well as book and software reviews.

The article presents information on managing big information technology (IT) projects. Chief Information Officer Andres Carvallo believes that in a mega-project, the most attention from start to finish is required by change management. One needs to understand employees' and partners' abilities and limitations and then establishing new systems. Carvallo had to reckon that employees were accustomed to paper order forms, when Austin Energy moved to a wireless system for repair work orders. Carvallo explains that all these variables have to be considered when one brings in automation. His team is meeting its objectives. Ongoing training for all employees is organized by the utility. It also provides certification on most enterprise applications, to ensure that power users truly know how to use the products. When one assembles a team for leading multiple projects in an IT transformation, he has to confute this job with resources and capabilities. Team members should have been successful at leading big projects in the past. INSET: PLEASE Don't Call Them Megaprojects!.

The article presents two new products in the software industry. Interwoven, an enterprise content management provider, introduced Interwoven Records Manager 5.0, a tool for helping professional services firms achieve enterprise content compliance and manage risk. The product features a unified information-management platform that incorporates both paper and electronic records. SessionSuite, an Internet Protocol telephony communications platform from BlueNote Networks offers enterprise voice and video services delivered as an integrated set of data center applications. It also provides infrastructure for the management and integration of a service-oriented, session-based architecture that integrates with application frameworks such as .Net and enables integrated workflow applications, according to company officials.

This paper addresses the challenge facing information technology (IT) managers in finding a balance between predictability in day-to-day IT operations and supporting forward-looking experimentation that creates progress. Although stability is important to any IT operation, a retrograde IT department that reflexively takes a wait-and-see attitude toward anything new dooms itself to irrelevance. After all, the fundamental mission of IT is to serve real business needs with available technology. In certain IT departments, the leadership takes a fearful half empty view of almost anything. For example, if employees opt not to use their work-issued, IT-supported equipment, then IT has a serious problem. When legitimate needs for one user are not being addressed by the existing IT environment, there could be fundamental systemic problems in the company's IT environment--but one have to engage with users to find out. If several employees are using personal digital assistants (PDA) and the organic spread of PDA seems inevitable, an opportunity exists to jump ahead of the curve and define a corporate standard. Aside from keeping the IT trains running on time, the most important job of IT is to continually evaluate new technologies and sort the technology wheat from the chaff while keeping a close eye on what business challenges could be addressed by new innovations.

This article presents the authors' views on archiving e-mails. This summer, after years of procrastination, I finally got around to archiving my e-mail--3 years' worth. Some tell me I am nuts for even keeping the stuff. They say e-mail is so of the moment, so spontaneous and so ephemeral that once it is done, it is done. I admit it. I am an incurable pack rat. But at least no one can accuse me of not being Sarbanes-Oxley compliant. Once I got my e-mail archive built, I naturally started playing around with it to see what it could do. Just by running a few simple reports, I quickly saw some interesting patterns. Not to make too much of a trivial anecdote, but at the end of this little summer project, I find myself at the confluence of librarianship and knowledge management. Prior to this exercise, I might have said that I did not see the point in archiving both pre-prints and post-prints of research papers, let alone backing up and preserving the data and documents that go with the reported research. I still wonder if it is not too much to keep. And I still ponder how long any of it will remain kept. But I do have more appreciation for the value of keeping it all, rather than archiving just the parts we think are best. My hat is off to those of you who build digital archives for a living, to those of you who make the search machines that are capable of isolating treasures in large data dumps, and to those of you who are developing the analytical and visualization techniques capable of extracting meaning from, dare I say, nothingness.

This article presents an opinion on information discovery. There are several ways in which information discovery can be accomplished in a Web environment. The first is through lists that adorn the left-hand side of most intranets and Web sites, which attempt to categorize information. The second is through hyperlinks, and the third is through a search engine. In the case of Web sites, lists and hyperlinks are probably about equally important with search being an afterthought. For intranets, hyperlinks are somewhat less important because of the problem of creating and managing them, so search takes on much greater importance. The current emphasis on content management is not about content management at all but rather about content publishing. Organizations are aware of the problems in getting current, reliable information into an intranet but feel that their responsibility stops with building the repository and providing some templates for page display. Information architecture advocates have begun to raise the importance of information discovery but there still seems to be a total lack of understanding about the importance of research. The problem that I run not time and time again is that although there is a reasonable understanding of the content publishing cycle, user requirements are often overlooked, or at best, usability is confused with utility. It would seem that the search engine industry would have vested interest in promoting the effective use of search technologies within the context of findability, but I have to say that in my view, most search vendors' provide fairly lightweight white papers, and their own Web sites provide poor examples of site design.

The article evaluates various software products for the management of data. eRecordManager provides customers with a range of features focused on enhancing security of electronic records and improving ease of use of the system. Another product, GenSys/ELN is an enterprise-ready electronic laboratory solution for research intensive organizations. The software delivers advances in productivity, integration, collaboration and security unavailable in either commercial, off-the shelf electronic solutions or paper notebook alternatives. Other products include SDMS, Tripos Electronic Notebook and CyberLab Knowledge Engineering System.