Novel and Fundamental Advances in DigitalTechnologies for Managing Information andKnowledge

Abstract

The novel and fundamental advances in digital technologies since the invention of the first electronic computer, the ENIAC by John van Neumann in 1943 has been the single most important driving factor in the emergence of the information society and the resultant explosion of information generated, processed, stored and moved around the world through electronic network environments such as wide area networks (public telephone systems, satellites, microwave systems and more). The novel and more recent advances in communication technology including but not limited to the invention of Ethernet in 1973 by Xerox, PCs, Web browser, Internet/World wide web, search engines, social media and now cloud computing have ushered in a new world order, which revolves around digital solutions. These novel technological advances and the consequent information explosion have in many ways made the work of information and knowledge managers more exciting and also more complex. More than before, information experts are now required to work closely with software and hardware specialists to develop solutions that facilitate data mining from the vast amount of information and data stored in high performance computing infrastructures such as clouds, online databases, government web portals, digital archives, institutional repositories, digital libraries, publishers databases, etc. The leadership role of information and knowledge experts in such areas as information Editorial Feature Novel and Fundamental Advances in Digital Technologies for Managing Information and Knowledge organisation (especially Internet-based resources that are largely managed by robotic agents), indexing, abstracting, and bibliometric analyses among others has been enhanced and made easier by digital technologies. Read more...