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Thu, 04/09/2008 - 15:09 — Robert Castelo

A Drupal For Libraries event might be interesting, I think Drupal might be a good match.

Any libraries interested, or anyone with contacts in the library system?

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Sat, 06/09/2008 - 23:01 — Daryl

Modded +1 - And KM too...

In general, I think this might be interesting to lot of places if you also included general knowledge management and how Drupal could be used to help it out.

Especially, after that enterprise search at the Drupal for Enterprises, Drupal as an intranet/portal technology and gateway drug for knowledge management is looking a lot more interesting. Especially on the front of the non-explicit/tacit (ie. non-written) portion of knowledge management... which you could argue is primarily social anyway.

Sun, 07/09/2008 - 08:14 — conradtaylor
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Links and co-incidences

Robert, Daryl,

I agree that this could be an interesting topic. Within the British Computer Society, we have an informal network called KIDMM (Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management) which takes this issue as one of its interests, and on 9th October we are running an all-day event jointly with the UK branch of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, which has strong links with librarianship experts. Our KIDMM/ISKO event takes the title "Making and Organising Knowledge in Communities" (see http://www.kidmm.org/home/mashup2008/) and a number of the presentations will look at enabling knowledge-sharing communities through online tools, while a biggish slice of the afternoon will be a groups discussion exercise to brainstorm and rank the most most important features of an online tool.

Two of the speakers will be Lyndsay Rees-Jones and Ed Mitchell, who implemented "CILIP Communities" for the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. That would be a good link-up for you!

Conrad