Challenges of information management repositories and their instrumental positioning for Knowledge Management, but also accessibility and preservation of information is presented, with a specific example of a large digital repository, the International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

1. • Information
management
challenges
• INIS concept and
operation
• Thesaurus as KOS
• Nuclear information
preservation
Nuclear
Information
to Knowledge:
INIS
Zaven Hakopov
IAEA

2. • Growth rate for science
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“The role of conference proceedings,
open access archives and publications
published on the net is increasing,
especially in scientific fields with high
growth rates…” [Scientometrics, Volume 84, Issue 3,
10.1007/s11192-010-0202-z]
“…researchers are uncertain about how
sharing their work will affect their
careers.” [“How open science helps researchers
succeed”,eLife,2016;10.7554/eLife.16800]
• Open access to publications – open science

3. • Servers all-around
• Blooming “document
retrieval systems”
• Features concourse

4. •Repositories in KM
•The ontologies or thesauri as Knowledge
Organization Systems (KOS’s)
•Open access repositories as KM tools
[http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/LM-03-
2014-0038]
“Because knowledge organization
systems are mechanisms for
organizing information, they are at the
heart of every library, museum, and
archive.” [Council on Library and
Information Resources]
Because knowledge organization
systems are mechanisms for organizing
information, they are at the heart of
every information management system!

5. •Availability and open access to
information resources
•Information mix, media types, explicit
and tacit knowledge
•Utilize modern technologies and
practices and use variety of sources to
enrich the information system
•Importance of instrumental applications
of information systems, i.e. in KM as KOS
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aggregate, streamline
leverage the overlap
offer useful features

7. •identification, indexing, storage,
discovery and long-term preservation
•IAEA institutional repository
•Knowledge Organization System
•Controlled vocabulary
•Exposure of research output
•Accessibility of content
Access and
Outreach
•Improve information services; e-Learning
•Assist with establishment of repositories
Capacity building,
information services

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NumberofInput
2016 Annual Production
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Trend
86.4 % Conventional Literature
 80.8 % Journal articles
 5.6 % Books
13.6 % Non-Conventional Literature (NCL)
 3.4 % Reports
 10.2 % Miscellaneous

9. Atomic,
Molecular &
Condensed
Matter Physics
11%
Chemistry
7%
Economic, Legal
& Social
2%
Elementary
Particle Physics
4%
Engineering &
Instrumentation
10%
Environmental &
Earth Science
5%
Fusion Research
& Technology
2%
Isotopes
1%
Life & Sciences
18%
Non-Nuclear
Energy 1%
Nuclear Fuel
Cycle &
Radioactive
Waste
2%
Nuclear Materials
14%
Nuclear Physics
15%
Nuclear Power &
Safety
7%
Safeguards
1%

10. Exposure and access
• Quick and advanced search
• Free and open access
• Indexed by Google Scholar; other
partners
• High exposure

11. Preservation of nuclear information
•Long-term
•Open access
•Regular downloads
•Top positions in
search engines

12. •Created decades ago, proved to be effective for information
acquisition, indexing, preservation.
•Accumulation and preservation of explicit knowledge
•INIS KOS an operating model of a subject based knowledge
organization system
•To be interoperable with other KOS’s; semantic technologies
•INIS search provides the mechanism for exposure of explicit
knowledge – sharing with the world
• connection to KM: information system extends the applicability
of KM, being instrumental to it; outreach, education
•Role: form, tasks, vision?