Ahmad Zam Hariro Samsudin

• ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR at UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

The increasing availability of online herbal medicine information has complicated the process for consumers and practitioners to locate pertinent data. Conventional resources such as textbooks and manuscripts are deficient in depth and order, hindering comprehension of herbal remedies and their interconnections. Ontology, as a systematic framework,...

Oral history holds a significant role in documenting the cultural heritage of a country. It is a method to record and document the past from the experience and event of the figures that experience them. However, the lack of awareness on oral history collection made that oral history inaccessible particularly in Malaysia. Other than that, unorganize...

Currently, firms are using Big Data to surpass their competitors. All current rivals and future entrants will use the strategies derived from the analysed data to compete, adapt, and derive value across various sectors. Numerous advantages might be recognized while executing a Big Data initiative. In Malaysia, the discourse and implementation of th...

User studies continue to be an important area of library research, as studying the information needs and seeking behaviour of specific user groups has contributed to the development of a variety of necessary services in Malaysia. This study aims to investigate the information needs and seeking behaviour of lawyers in Klang Valley, Malaysia. A reali...

The libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) promote culture, community, and change new cultural heritage information management research. History deserves The Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto (OCMHS), Indonesia as a World Heritage. The LAM convergence may initiate in OCMHS. LAM convergence counts and digitization changes LAM. Universitas...

This study examines the relationship between librarian’s competencies and personal qualities towards the organization's performance. There are three competencies’ dimensions described in this study, namely the technical skills, human skills, and conceptual skills. Conversely, the ten personal qualities dimension of librarians are achiever, able to...

This study examines various approaches for ontology construction and evaluation in medicinal plant ontology, focusing on the challenges associated with this domain. Thirty review articles on three databases revealed five alternative approaches for ontology generation in herbal medicine: well-structured methodology, customized methodology, semiautom...

This study explores Malaysian secondary school teachers' challenges in integrating digital information literacy (DIL) into their teaching. The research focuses on Design and Technology (RBT), highlighting the need for students to navigate the digital information landscape. The study uses a qualitative phenomenological study and thematic analysis by...

The role of Academic Digital library (DL) in our educational system has becoming of paramount important in bringing education knowledge and information closer and faster to academic users. Moreover, through the fast-changing development of the information and communication technology, it is further positively proliferated the sphere of information...

SMEs employ almost two-thirds of the labour force in the nation, provide income for the government through income taxation, and provide income for households through taxes, profits, and salaries. According to the World Bank's classification of countries, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines are examples of emerging countries that rely on SMEs fo...

Dissemination of fake news and information disorder became more apparent in Malaysia since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to determine the factors of dissemination of fake news and information disorder which would help curbing the unhealthy practice from spreading in the society. No study on this issue was found. Quantitati...

The essence of information has become more crucial for organizations, particularly in the digital age, where the creation of information is at exponential growth. The absence of proper classification of data and information hampered the quality in terms of consistency and reliability of the information. As a consequence, there is data redundancy, i...

Information governance (IG) embraces underlying necessities to organize information using consistent method for meeting organizational needs. This demand has proliferated over the past few years to any organization, including universities. However, due to the poor nature of information management systems in Nigerian universities, there is a signifi...

Purpose-This study aims to investigate the factors affecting knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) among undergraduate students in X University in Malaysia. University X was used instead of the university's name to protect the identity of the university. The objectives are: i) To identify the factors that affecting knowledge sharing behaviour among und...

The key purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of environmental sustainability practices in Malaysian rural libraries. A qualitative approach was employed through interviews, observations, and examinations of documents related to the six (6) rural libraries which were involved in this study. This study concluded that rural libr...

The purpose of this paper is to look at the challenges faced by information professionals in Malaysia context, which focus on a government agency. The career as an information professional is seen invisible, although the importance of information management is undeniable. Every year the number of graduates grows gradually, but still many of the gra...

Universities in Nigeria aim to be on global map with better international rankings. Unfortunately, they are plagued with inefficient administration and management due to poor management of records and information. Universities, most of the cases are failed to comply with the National Universities Commission, which resulted higher possibilities of r...

Universities in Nigeria aim to be on global map with better international rankings. Unfortunately, they are plagued with inefficient administration and management due to poor management of records and information. Universities, most of the cases are failed to comply with the National Universities Commission, which resulted higher possibilities of r...

p>This paper evaluates the readiness of Malaysian academic university libraries towards Library 4.0. The rise of this new intervention of Web 4.0 and Library 4.0 are being deliberated among librarians for future services. Information technology facilities have been identified and analysed which may comprehend the use of libraries for the next gener...

Knowledge management (KM) has been often claimed to be an important ingredient in building competitive advantage in an organization. Based on the previous studies KM adoption in Malaysia is relatively slow. Most organizations in Malaysia are unsure if the promised performance improvement through the implementation of KM practices is just passing a...

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are beneficial in improving patient care, promoting safe practice, as well as enhancing patients and multiple providers’ communication and risk error reduction. However, it seems that the adoption of EHR system is happening very slowly to become fully integrated in both primary care and within hospital settings. In...

Abstract Knowledge management in academic institution become an essential tool to ensure the new knowledge, ideas and innovation is continuously build up to enhance the institution’s performance and achievements. Knowledge harvesting is a practical method to design and implementing in academic institution in order tacit knowledge can be managed and...

Higher education institutes such as universities suffer from a range of issues in managing their academic records and relevant digital contents. Many universities nowadays use specific software applications for their effective mechanism in records management. The effective provision of enterprises records management (ERM) software for managing reco...

This paper highlighted a study on the technique used in formulating a new complete model for preserving the entire electronic records (e-records) event history metadata. Based on the real case study at Malaysia’s Government Agencies (MGA) and also review on the literature, the unavailability of complete model in preserving the entire e-records meta...

Organizations have been very successful in capturing and storing large amount of transactional data and meta-data into databases. However, with the proliferation of digital information, it has become imperative that an effective approach must be developed to facilitate the retrieval of relevant and precise information from databases. Knowledge taxo...

Technologies for record management systems have not been sufficient in meeting industry's demands, especially for providing appropriate search options that are context-sensitive. Ontology has been a tool for providing useful vocabulary and meaning that enable decision-makers to find the relevant information quickly. This paper discusses an ontology...

Within the field of information systems development, enterprise record management (ERM) technologies have largely failed to meet industry's demands specially for context-sensitive records management and document preservation. Electronic record management systems (EDRMS), as ERM tool, have become wellrecognized applications to academic users in high...