Welcome to the International Conference on “Knowledge Generation, Discovery and Networking”.

15 – 16 February, 2017

The success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its ability to generate, share and utilize knowledge.   Knowledge Management (KM), with its potential to capitalize an organization’s intellectual capital, is viewed as a planned and structured approach to manage the creation, sharing, discovering and leveraging of knowledge to enhance an organization’s ability, speed and effectiveness in delivering products or services.

KM represents an opportunity by entrusting new roles and responsibilities for libraries and Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals. One of the important objectives of adopting KM in libraries is to turn libraries and information centres into learning and knowledge sharing organizations by linking libraries and LIS professionals together and creating a flow of knowledge generated by LIS professionals. Thus, the ultimate aim is innovation and reuse of the knowledge. Innovation is closely linked to the generation of new knowledge or new linkages between existing knowledge, while reuse forms the basis for organizational learning through discovery and networking of knowledge.

Libraries are required to generate new knowledge to find more effective ways of managing their functions and services. Knowledge is generated through research and proper utilization of existing knowledge. However, existing knowledge must easily be discovered before making use of it to generate new knowledge.

Knowledge discovery is the process of discovering useful and workable knowledge. Explicit knowledge is mostly organised in the repositories and databases for preservation as well as wide access and multiple uses. Modern IT-based tools and techniques may be used to facilitate the knowledge discovery, access and retrieval process. Some important techniques like taxonomies, metadata harvesting, data warehousing, data mining, knowledge mapping and knowledge discovery services are used as KM tools in libraries for the organization and discovery of knowledge.

Knowledge networking and collaboration represent a solution for extending access to tacit knowledge for more creative uses and for increased quality of the processes and services. Knowledge networking is a way of extending the access to external knowledge resources through library networks or partnerships with other libraries, including links to professional library groups and publications, etc.

The conference is being organized to help libraries and information centres to improve their functions and services by managing the knowledge with the newer and modern techniques and procedures. The conference will bring together academics, researchers, library practitioners and eminent scholars across the globe in the field of KM to share their knowledge and experiences and discuss the tools and techniques of managing both tacit and explicit knowledge.

 

Main theme of the conference:                        Knowledge Generation, Discovery and Networking

 Conference Sub-themes

Knowledge Generation

  • Knowledge Generation through ICT
  • Academic research and Knowledge Generation
  • Knowledge management and Innovative Approaches of Knowledge Generation
  • Knowledge Generation Systems
  • Tools and Technologies of Knowledge Generation
  • Conscious and Intentional Knowledge Generation

Knowledge Discovery

  • Knowledge Discovery and Data Warehousing
  • Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • Knowledge Discovery Tools and services
  • Web Mining and Web Scale Discovery
  • Web and Distributed Information Retrieval
  • Visual Data Mining and Data Visualization
  • Interactive and Online Data Mining
  • Integration of Data Warehousing and Data Mining

Knowledge Sharing and Networking

  • Knowledge-Creating communities and Virtual communities
  • Communities as publishers and networks
  • Dynamics of collaboration and community building
  • Multi-channel publishing
  • ICT for collaborative learning
  • Knowledge management systems

Current Trends in Libraries and Information Centers

  • Open Access and Open Repositories
  • Standards, Interoperability and IPR issues
  • Digital repositories, archives and libraries
  • Digital Curation, Content and Document Management
  • Semantic Technologies and Ontologies
  • Emerging Web Technologies and Applications of Social networking
  • Management of E-resources and E-archives
  • Management of Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories
  • E-learning and Content Management for Knowledge-Based Society
  • Knowledge Management and Web 2.0/Web 3.0
  • Knowledge management tools for libraries
  • Case studies on Knowledge Management initiatives in libraries

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