Information Resources Management,

Abstract

Transfer of scientific and technical information between and among nations poses increasing challenges because of: 1) larger and larger volumes of data exchanged; 2) the increasing variety of information interchange media; 3) larger and larger numbers of intermediaries and end-users all along the information transfer chain; and 4) increasing incompatibility of bibliographic and telecommunications formatting conventions. The newly emerging field of Information Resources Management (IRM) offers promise in helping to cope with these serious information exchange challenges. In particular, new experiments in the US. Federal Government with a technique called 'information mapping,' helps information managers identify, describe, inventory/survey, and control their total data, document, and literature flows and holdings, whether automated or manual, more completely. This paper introduces the new approach of IRM, and the technique of information mapping, in several organizational contexts - one private (an Australian mineral and mining company), the other public (the U.S. Dept. of State).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 20, 1988
Accession Number
ADP005831

Entities

People

  • Forest W. Horton Jr

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Systems
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Transfer
  • Inventory
  • Literature
  • Organizational Structure
  • Political Science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).