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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)
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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