Information and Knowledge Management

Class4: File Sharing Tools

Marielba ZacariasProf. Auxiliar DEEI

FCT I, Gab 2.69, Ext. 7749mzacaria@ualg.pt

http://w3.ualg.pt/~mzacaria

SummaryKnowledge as an asset

Origins of the knowledge worker

Types of Intellectual Capital

Initial definition of the types of knowledge

Knowledge Management vs Re-engineering

Web 2.0 Tools

Document sharing

Tool Section

File Sharing

• Practice of distributing or providing access to digital information including

• audio, images, videos

• documents, books

• links

• software

File sharing Modes

• Removable media (pen drives, cds)

• Centralized computer file server installations

• web-based hyperlinked documents

• peer-to-peer networking

File sharing history

• Before 1978

• removable media

• 1978 (BBS), 1979 (Usenet), ftp (1985)

• Unstructured p2p (1999) - Napster

• Kazaa, BitTorrent

• Now, mostly web-based sharing

Tags & Tagging

• User provided keywords to classify files

• Known as

• Content tagging,

• collaborative tagging,

• social tagging

• “folksonomy” (people’s taxonomy)

Benefits/Issues• Users do not have to abide to formally defined categories (free assignment of

keywords)

• Assigned by content creators/distributors

• Problems

• Same terms with different meanings, different names with similar meanings

• Lack of orderly structure

• Leads to search confusion and inefficiencies when content consumer when content consumers and producers do not have shared meanings for terms

• Public and Publisher Tagging