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> Insights into knowledge management:
> Valuation of information assets in UK companies (Joan Stenson)
> Collaborative Filtering as an Approach to Knowledge Management (Matthew
> Chalmers)
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> Presented by IIS Scottish Branch with the kind sponsorship of the
> Department of Information Science, University of Strathclyde.
>
> Where: Conference Room, Life Long Learning,7th Floor, Graham Hills
> Building, University of Strathclyde ,40 George Street, GLASGOW
>
> When: 6pm Wednesday 25 April 2001. A buffet and refreshments will be
> provided.
>
> Cost: IIS members £5.00 (VAT inclusive), non-IIS members: £10.00 (VAT
> inclusive),
> Students FREE (please bring proof of eligibility)
>
> * Valuation of information assets in UK companies: Joan Stenson
>
> Many organisations in the UK have great difficulties getting to grips
> with the information held and used by them, and in particular with
> understanding the value of their information. Research carried out at
> Loughborough University during 1999 sought to identify some of the
> issues involved in the valuation of information assets in UK companies,
> using a new accounting standard for goodwill and intangible assets,
> FRS10 (Financial Reporting Standard 10). The research found that few of
> the senior managers interviewed recognised information as an asset or
> considered it should be included on the balance sheet. Current research
> at Loughborough is attempting to identify how information assets
> contribute to the effectiveness of organisations. This approach sees
> information as central to the good financial and operational management
> of organisations. The aim is ultimately to assess the impact of
> information on enhancing organisational effectiveness.
>
> * Collaborative Filtering as an Approach to Knowledge Management:
> Matthew Chalmers
>
> Collaborative filtering (CF) is an alternative to traditional
> information retrieval and knowledge management techniques. Rather than
> focusing on the content of documents, it works on the patterns of use of
> information by a specific group of people. CF systems, such as
> Amazon.com's book recommender, offer information to a person based on
> the people with most similar use patterns to him or her. They tend to
> focus on more tacit or implicit knowledge rather than explicit
> expressions of information need and activity. At Glasgow University,
> research on recommender systems focuses on making recommendations much
> more specific to the ongoing context of a user, on making visualisations
> of users' activity, and on refinements to better fit with organisational
> information systems and with individuals' perception. I'll describe our
> 'Recer' system, outlining its implementation but also discussing the
> general approach to the representation and support of an organisation's
> activity.
>
> The speakers
>
> Joan Stenson is a Research Associate in the Department of Information
> Science and a PhD student in the Business School at Loughborough
> University. Her interests include knowledge management, information
> auditing, the economics of information andfinancial management. She has
> previously worked for the Public Record Office at Kew and for Aslib, the
> Association for Information Management as well as for a number of
> commercial library and information centres in the UK.
>
> Matthew Chalmers gained his B.Sc. in Computer Science from U. Edinburgh
> and his PhD, on 3D graphics and multiprocessor systems, from U. East
> Anglia. An internship at Xerox PARC preceded research work at Xerox
> EuroPARC in Cambridge, on graph layout algorithms, computer supported
> collaborative work and information visualisation. He started up the
> information visualisation group at Ubilab, Union Bank of Switzerland's
> research lab in Zurich. In 1999, after a research fellowship at
> U.Hokkaido, Japan, he joined Glasgow University. His current research
> focuses on the design of adaptive and context-aware information systems,
> on the social and perceptual issues in data visualisation and
> collaborative filtering, and, more theoretically, on relating
> linguistics and philosophy to informatics. He is a Principal
> Investigator for Equator, an £10M six year project funded by the EPSRC
> to work on combining physical and digital media. He has served on paper
> committees for international conferences such as IEEE Visualisation,
> IEEE Information Visualisation, the ACM Information Retrieval conference
> (SIGIR) and ACM Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), and
> reviewed for journals and conferences such as ACM Computer Graphics
> (SIGGRAPH), User Interface Systems and Technologies (UIST), ACM
> Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, IEEE Computer Graphics &
> Applications, IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, J. CSCW
> and the BCS Computer Journal.
>
> If you wish to attend
> please return the following form to:
> Clare Whittaker, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street,
> Edinburgh EH1 1JF
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