Michele Menna, Il nuovo mosaico della conoscenza. Biblioteche e bibliotecari di fronte ai processi di transizione professionale. Il caso dell'Università di Bologna. Prefazione di Everardo Minardi. Bologna : Clueb, 2002. 179 p. (Amministrare l'Università ; 8) ISBN 88-491-1875-9. 15 €

Review of: Michele Menna, "Il nuovo mosaico della conoscenza. Biblioteche e bibliotecari di fronte ai processi di transizione professionale. Il caso dell'Università di Bologna". Since universities declare themselves knowledge industries, it seems that also for us are available that thought and those realizations of organization science which before were confined in the world of for money firms. In the same way, we've had the privilege of being able to begin experimenting on ourselves a process of dissolution of the work as derived by a solid tradition. The case of librarians (and of the growing almost myriad of related professions) seems exemplary; LIS area has always been the one most positively sensible to the enrichments of professional profiles and to forms of rational work organization

KM, Knowledge Management - Aggiunta [Italian]

What does a KM operator? How does this role fit into the hierarchy in industry functions? The list of valid key-elements to define an information specialist is the same since many years: management of information sources and collections, active and selective information dissemination, summaries setting-up, information editing and transmission, reference and information retrieval, information promotion and user training, information policies development, classification and indexing, effective service management. A clear distinction between documentation/library science and KM is uneasy, a person could have both roles: librarian in the morning to catalogue and organize sources and documents, KM operator the day after to join a project, identify key-documents and use them relating to kind of use and people

KM, Knowledge Management - Aggiunta [Italian]

What does a KM operator? How does this role fit into the hierarchy in industry functions? The list of valid key-elements to define an information specialist is the same since many years: management of information sources and collections, active and selective information dissemination, summaries setting-up, information editing and transmission, reference and information retrieval, information promotion and user training, information policies development, classification and indexing, effective service management. A clear distinction between documentation/library science and KM is uneasy, a person could have both roles: librarian in the morning to catalogue and organize sources and documents, KM operator the day after to join a project, identify key-documents and use them relating to kind of use and people

The gamma-ray burst monitor for Lobster-ISS

Lobster-ISS is an X-ray all-sky monitor experiment selected by ESA two years ago for a Phase A study (now almost completed) for a future flight (2009) aboard the Columbus Exposed Payload Facility of the International Space Station. The main instrument, based on MCP optics with Lobster-eye geometry, has an energy passband from 0.1 to 3.5 keV, an unprecedented daily sensitivity of 2x10^{-12} erg cm^{-2}s$^{-1}, and it is capable to scan, during each orbit, the entire sky with an angular resolution of 4--6 arcmin. This X-ray telescope is flanked by a Gamma Ray Burst Monitor, with the minimum requirement of recognizing true GRBs from other transient events. In this paper we describe the GRBM. In addition to the minimum requirement, the instrument proposed is capable to roughly localize GRBs which occur in the Lobster FOV (162x22.5 degrees) and to significantly extend the scientific capabilities of the main instrument for the study of GRBs and X-ray transients. The combination of the two instruments will allow an unprecedented spectral coverage (from 0.1 up to 300/700 keV) for a sensitive study of the GRB prompt emission in the passband where GRBs and X-Ray Flashes emit most of their energy. The low-energy spectral band (0.1-10 keV) is of key importance for the study of the GRB environment and the search of transient absorption and emission features from GRBs, both goals being crucial for unveiling the GRB phenomenon. The entire energy band of Lobster-ISS is not covered by either the Swift satellite or other GRB missions foreseen in the next decade.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Paper presented at the COSPAR 2004 General Assembly (Paris), accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research in June 2005 and available on-line at the Journal site (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02731177), section "Articles in press

KM-Appunti: 1. Knowledge vs Information

Which is the difference? We can notice two base trends, that lead to as many hypothetical answers: a philosophical-gnosiological trend (Wiig, Goodhall, Mercier-Laurent, Grey, Green, Bellinger, Sveiby) and a behavioural-pragmatic one (Sierhuis, Skyrme, Barr). While the first one sections the term (and the underlying concept) in its components, highlighting the situation or the context, or the purpose of its use, the second one troubles more about deriving from it some instructions for its complete applicability, in order to manage business information-knowledge systems. As always, truth depends on the context, the intentions and the specific cognitive labyrinth. If information is data that made contact with receivers and were correctly decoded & assimilated by them, all the more reason that knowledge isn't something objective, but it depends still more on the being (and obviously on the existence) of the receiver, so it's something very subjective and - in conclusion - very cultural (if not spiritual). Business knowledge systems will have to particularly consider this side, in order to avoid the reduction of the establishment of KM strategies to the purchase of a certain "knowledge"-management system. A KM software accomplishes the tool; KM is created by knowledge managers

KM, Knowledge Management - 2/3

The greater discover of Knowledge Management is that the SGML standard can be used to manage not only documents but also organization. Practised systems and artifical intelligence, though belonging to the past knowledge technology (that based on DBMS, Data Base Management System), can contribute to the present one (KBMS, Knowledge Base Management System) since they acquire, represent and manage not only data and information, but knowledge too. The key point are Information Retrieval, indexing and digests’ compiling. The news is that the number and the complexity of document to be managed with KM is highly increased. The new task of AI in KM world is that to create and develop commercial products for IR and DB/KM Management Systems, to allow industries to analyze large quantities of information (automated reading, indexing and summaring) and to re-introduce in databases the results of queries and interpretations, to have the real knowledge

KM-Appunti: 3. DBMS vs KBMS

The work of an information specialist is: take the most important from information in a document, organize this information in orderly and intuitive shapes equiping it with crtical, historical, technical and descriptive contributions. These are the tasks of all the mediatic structures that want to make easy to the readers the understanding of data and information in a document, hoping that this reader could become an author. This is an informative system. If a system for transmission is useful to transfer data from two points at least in a network, a informative system does the same with information, and a cognitive system does the same as well with knowledge. A DBMS, Data Based Management System, in not the same as a KBMS, Knowledge Based Management System

Le novità dell'Euroguida I&D, seconda edizione

Which are the "political" guidelines underlying the certification model proposed by CERTIDoc? Which ones the strategic goals? By which "machinery" does the system work? Which is the new structure of our Reference Frame? The fields of expertise are then surveyed showing examples extracted from several elements of this profession together with the analysis of the individual aptitudes that "make the difference" between an information specialist and a good one. It's this difference that provides the professional with the confidence required by employers and users/clients. Analysing the so-called complementary competencies is a way to draw four vertical levels of qualification, from "assistant" to "expert", through "technician" and "manager". These professional values are based more on the employee's assets than any academic degree he/she can hold

Ascoltare da vicino il mondo che cambia : imprese, istituzioni e settore non profit di fronte all'opportunità offerta dall'immigrazione qualificata. Gruppo CERFE, Firenze, 30-31 maggio 2002

We can trivialize the meaning of “difference” between people as “the ways in which people are different from each others”, and also “differences in observable and non observable characteristics”. The problem is part of information and communication sciences issues, but differences management has a key-role in budget bottom line, since it causes group dynamics

KM-Appunti : 5. KM e "nuova" logica

Paolo Bisogno leaved many tracks that must be catalogued. One of his research paths, Knowledge Management, is a sort of “Science of knowledge organization” if we decide to join the idea of knowledge with practical, managerial and directional components. We will try to outline here an operative and epistemologic layout of knowledge modelling and categorizing, helping us in understanding new knowledge boundaries of KM