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Open Source Digital Library Software: Building bridges not islands using Greenstone
This event took place on Wednesday 30 May 2007 at 11:30

 
Dr David Bainbridge University of Waikato, New Zealand

A prominent digital library researcher recently likened the development of open source digital library software as "more like stepping on the toes of others rather than standing on the shoulders of giants". The remark (said more out of exasperation than anything else) refers to the trend in digital library software development of building standalone systems, of development teams preferring to "roll their own" software solution rather than tap in to other open source DL projects. This is an issue we have been addressing in the Greenstone digital library project over the last few years. Drawing upon protocols such as SRW and OAI, document and metadata standards such as MOD and METS, and other web-based technologies, in this talk I will illustrate various ways Greenstone can be used to build those bridges rather than remain an island.

 
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Knowledge Management is...


Knowledge Management
Creating learning organisations hinges on managing knowledge at many levels. Knowledge can be provided by individuals or it can be created as a collective effort of a group working together towards a common goal, it can be situated as "war stories" or it can be generalised as guidelines, it can be described informally as comments in a natural language, pictures and technical drawings or it can be formalised as mathematical formulae and rules, it can be expressed explicitly or it can be tacit, embedded in the work product. The recipient of knowledge - the learner - can be an individual or a work group, professionals, university students, schoolchildren or informal communities of interest.
Our aim is to capture, analyse and organise knowledge, regardless of its origin and form and make it available to the learner when needed presented with the necessary context and in a form supporting the learning processes.