An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges
Introduction: Community-based organizations are struggling to manage their current, historical and archival information assets, which impact on the information practices and seeking behaviour in these communities. This paper explores what these challenges are and proposes sustainable solutions with...
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| author | Joseph, Pauline |
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| description | Introduction: Community-based organizations are struggling to manage their current, historical and archival information assets, which impact on the information practices and seeking behaviour in these communities. This paper explores what these challenges are and proposes sustainable solutions with the help of cultural institutions. Methods: Research data were gathered from student projects, participant workshops and a case study with the motor sport community. Analysis: This study draws on the qualitative analysis of a range of sources. Results: The findings scope the information management challenges experienced generally in community-based organisations with detailed insights into the difficulties evident in the motor sport community. Conclusion: A common system to register, capture, access and preserve community-based information assets is recommended to be hosted by an Australian cultural institution in their capacity as ‘keepers’ of Australia’s history, archives and heritage. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-244252017-01-30T12:42:48Z An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges Joseph, Pauline Professor T. D. Wilson Electronic information Information Behaviour Information Practices Records management Archives management Information seeking behaviour Information Needs Sustainability Information systems Community-based organisations Introduction: Community-based organizations are struggling to manage their current, historical and archival information assets, which impact on the information practices and seeking behaviour in these communities. This paper explores what these challenges are and proposes sustainable solutions with the help of cultural institutions. Methods: Research data were gathered from student projects, participant workshops and a case study with the motor sport community. Analysis: This study draws on the qualitative analysis of a range of sources. Results: The findings scope the information management challenges experienced generally in community-based organisations with detailed insights into the difficulties evident in the motor sport community. Conclusion: A common system to register, capture, access and preserve community-based information assets is recommended to be hosted by an Australian cultural institution in their capacity as ‘keepers’ of Australia’s history, archives and heritage. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24425 http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-1/isic2/isicsp15.html#.VgzNG4GUdsC Information Research fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Electronic information Information Behaviour Information Practices Records management Archives management Information seeking behaviour Information Needs Sustainability Information systems Community-based organisations Joseph, Pauline An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges |
| title | An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges |
| title_full | An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges |
| title_fullStr | An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges |
| title_short | An exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges |
| title_sort | exploration of community-based organizations' information management challenges |
| topic | Electronic information Information Behaviour Information Practices Records management Archives management Information seeking behaviour Information Needs Sustainability Information systems Community-based organisations |
| url | http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-1/isic2/isicsp15.html#.VgzNG4GUdsC http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24425 |