The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar's path from oil- and gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy. This book gives basic information about the region and the country, including the geographic and demographic data, the culture, the politics and the economy, the health care conditions and the education system. It introduces the concepts of knowledge society and knowledge-based development and adds factual details about Qatar by interpreting indicators of the development status. Subsequently, the research methods that underlie the study are described, which offers information on the eGovernment study analyzing the government-citizen relationship, higher education institutions and systems, its students and the students' way into the labor market. This book has an audience with economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, information scientists and other researchers on the knowledge society, but also all researchers and practitioners interested in the Arab Oil States and their future.

Information Markets is a compendium of the i-commerce, the commerce with digital information, content as well as software. Information Markets is a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of economic and information science endeavors on the markets of digital information. It provides a strategic guideline for information providers how to analyse their market environment and how to develop possible strategic actions. It is a book for information professionals, both for students of LIS (Library and Information Science), CIS (Computer and Information Science) or Information Management curricula and for practitioners as well as managers in these fields.

Dealing with information is one of the vital skills in the 21st century. It takes a fair degree of information savvy to create, represent and supply information as well as to search for and retrieve relevant knowledge. How does information (documents, pieces of knowledge) have to be organized in order to be retrievable? What role does metadata play? What are search engines on the Web, or in corporate intranets, and how do they work? How must one deal with natural language processing and tools of knowledge organization, such as thesauri, classification systems, and ontologies? How useful is social tagging? How valuable are intellectually created abstracts and automatically prepared extracts? Which empirical methods allow for user research and which for the evaluation of information systems? This Handbook is a basic work of information science, providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of information retrieval and knowledge representation. It addresses readers from all professions and scientific disciplines, but particularly scholars, practitioners and students of Information Science, Library Science, Computer Science, Information Management, and Knowledge Management. This Handbook is a suitable reference work for Public and Academic Libraries.

Dealing with information is one of the vital skills in the 21st century. It takes a fair degree of information savvy to create, represent and supply information as well as to search for and retrieve relevant knowledge. How does information (documents, pieces of knowledge) have to be organized in order to be retrievable? What role does metadata play? What are search engines on the Web, or in corporate intranets, and how do they work? How must one deal with natural language processing and tools of knowledge organization, such as thesauri, classification systems, and ontologies? How useful is social tagging? How valuable are intellectually created abstracts and automatically prepared extracts? Which empirical methods allow for user research and which for the evaluation of information systems? This Handbook is a basic work of information science, providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of information retrieval and knowledge representation. It addresses readers from all professions and scientific disciplines, but particularly scholars, practitioners and students of Information Science, Library Science, Computer Science, Information Management, and Knowledge Management. This Handbook is a suitable reference work for Public and Academic Libraries.

In a knowledge-based society, it is essential that every individual be able to effectively gather, manage, and assess information. This book illustrates the necessity of courses in information literacy in German primary and secondary education in order to prepare students for the demands of private and working life in a knowledge-based society. The book discusses in detail the current state of the field of information literacy for children and adolescents."

Mit dem Aufkommen der Wissensgesellschaft wird Information zum Wirtschaftsgut. Digitale Wirtschaftsguter - Content wie Software - werden entweder selbst vermarktet (z.B. bei kommerziellen Informationsdiensten) oder dienen als Lockangebote fur Werbung (z.B. bei Suchmaschinen mit sponsored links). Aufgrund der Besonderheiten des vertriebenen Produkts unterscheiden sich die Wettbewerbsstrategien von Informationsanbietern von denen nicht-digitaler Guter. Zu beachten ist zudem der illegale Informationsmarkt (Schwarzkopien). Im Zentrum des Buches steht zwar eine okonomische Analyse des Informationsmarktes, behandelt werden aber auch Informationssoziologie und -politologie, Informationsrecht sowie Informationsethik."

Evidenzbasiertes Wissensmanagement stellt sicher, dass sowohl einschlagige Forschungsergebnisse als auch der Informationsbedarf der Mitarbeiter und Kunden bei der betrieblichen Information und Kommunikation berucksichtigt werden. Es befasst sich mit Methoden zur UEberwindung von Theorie-Praxis-Lucken. Die erste zwischen Wissensmanager und Nutzer gelegene Lucke wird durch empirische Informationsbedurfnis- und Nutzeranalysen geschlossen. Die zweite Lucke zwischen Wissensmanagement und Forschung und Entwicklung schliessen Datenbankrecherchen und einschlagige Fachliteratur. Sonja Gust von Loh verbindet neue Methoden wie die Analyse kognitiver Arbeit und die Informationshermeneutik mit dem Wissensmanagement. Sie unterscheidet bei Wissensmanagement-Tools zwischen sozialen Methoden, konventionellen technischen Tools und Web-2.0-Services. Die Studie zeigt, dass sowohl Einfuhrung als auch Betrieb von Wissensmanagement in Unternehmen durch Evidenzbasierung profitieren.

Wissensreprasentation ist die Wissenschaft, Technik und Anwendung von Methoden und Werkzeugen, Wissen derart abzubilden, damit dieses in digitalen Datenbanken optimal gesucht und gefunden werden kann. Sie ermoglicht die Gestaltung von Informationsarchitekturen, die auf der Grundlage von Begriffen und Begriffsordnungen arbeitend gestatten, Wissen in seinen Bedeutungszusammenhangen darzustellen. Ohne elaborierte Techniken der Wissensreprasentation ist es unmoglich, das "semantische Web" zu gestalten. Das Lehrbuch vermittelt Kenntnisse uber Metadaten und beschreibt eingehend sowohl dokumentarische wie bibliothekarische Ansatze der Inhaltserschliessung (Thesauri und Klassifikationssysteme), Bemuhungen der Informatik um Begriffsordnungen (Ontologien) als auch nutzerkonzentrierte Entwicklungen im Web 2.0 (Folksonomies). Es geht um das Auswerten und Bereitstellen von Informationen bei Diensten im World Wide Web, bei unternehmensinternen Informationsdiensten im Kontext des betrieblichen Wissensmanagement sowie bei fachspezifischen professionellen (kommerziellen) Datenbanken."