Friday, September 19, 2008

Central Repository ...

My friend Nirmala has commented on my post about whether an organization should jump straight to "KM 2.0". And she makes an important point ...

A common repository means common taxonomy...a common way of identifying and locating artifacts. A common repository means a visually rich big picture that tells you about all sorts of possibilities....not one that is carved out of a narrow search term!!

I think she has got it bang on. Today, there are tools which can enable you to share documents right off your hard-disk. Create a document, put it into a shared folder, and there you are ... others can find the documents right from there. Contrast this with a common repository ... Create a document, save it on your hard-disk, and then upload it onto a repository. And, you dont even know what half those taxonomies mean. This being the key. And, this is where a repository plays an important role ... that of getting people thinking about how others think, getting people thinking in terms of a common terminology, giving some form of uniformity (its nice, at times ... remember McDonald's ... the same taste wherever you go). You got it ... how could i not write about food?

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