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Conference speaker, presenter, lecturer, moderator, writer, editor, project and office manager, digitalization and digital transformation enthusiast, chair of international committees, life-long learner and avid knowledge seeker. Specialized in the field of information and knowledge management, working for various United Nations agencies and organizations for over 35 years in North America, Africa, and Europe. Holds a Doctorate degree from Middlesex University in London, an MPhil in Library and Information Science from Loughborough University, UK, an MA in International Relations from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and a Graduate Diploma in Public Administration, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
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November 2008 - present
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Knowledge Management (KM) has established itself as a critical discipline within information science since the early 1990s. However, the fundamental concepts of KM, such as knowledge collection, organization, sharing, and learning, have been essential human activities for centuries.
Humans have always sought to gather, organize, and utilize inform...
Implementing digital transformation (DT) presents numerous challenges, many of which are specific to each organization. However, several common issues often arise.
The goal of this paper is to offer basic road map requirements and features that can help organizations with transforming their digital services in order to become an integral part of the digital world. The paper suggests starting by looking at the existing digital environment, its business needs, and using it as leverage for mapping out its strate...
In today's fast-paced digital world, digital transformation consultants are helping organizations navigate and thrive in the digital age. They help and empower companies to integrate cutting-edge information technology into every facet of their business, revolutionizing operations, increasing productivity, and enhancing customer value. This paper o...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is already redefining the ways we engage with various types of information and data. In the wake of AI's unprecedented influence, its impact on grey literature (GL) remains an important yet underexplored domain. It is up to all GL professionals to integrate AI into their work and harness its power. This paper...
The chatbots for company's internal know-how are also known as generative AI for knowledge management.
ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, the most popular AI chatbots, offer varying capabilities for KM tasks. Choosing the right one depends on specific needs and priorities.
Knowledge management (KM) is the process of creating, sharing, using, and managing an organization's knowledge and information. It aims to use the collective knowledge of an organization to achieve its goals. One way to approach and increase the productivity of knowledge management is to use the Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. This...
Have you ever wondered about the diverse roles of a Knowledge Management (KM) consultant? Whether you're considering hiring one or aiming to become one yourself, understanding the scope of their work is crucial. The roles of a KM consultant vary depending on the industry, company size, and the level of maturity of an organization's knowledge manage...
Graying the grey" talks about the aging workforce's profound influence on the management and utilization of grey literature (GL). This phenomenon, globally pervasive, reshapes labor market dynamics, presenting substantial economic, social, and organizational challenges. Its impact transcends various domains of activity within both commercial enterp...
The article translated into Arabic and published in the Journal of Aalam Al-Zarra (Journal of Syrian Atomic Energy Commission). Originally published as "Keeping Libraries Relevant in a Digitally Transformed World" by Online Searcher, Volume 46, No. 1, January-February 2022.
Around 2000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger complained that his peers were wasting their time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on fewer but better-quality books and reading them thoroughly and repeatedly. After the invention of...
By using knowledge management in digital transformation, organizations can harness and leverage their knowledge assets in the digital era to drive innovation, improve decision-making, and create value.
https://intellobics.com/2023/03/24/enhancing-digital-transformation-through-knowledge-management/
This article, published in The Journal of the Institute of Digital Transformation, considers digital transformation a game-changer in the business world that has become a crucial aspect for organizations to stay ahead of the competition. With technological advancements, integrating digital solutions into various aspects of business operations has b...
Around 2000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger complained that his peers were wasting their time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on fewer but better-quality books and reading them thoroughly and repeatedly. After the invention of...
In today’s digital landscape, ChatGPT is a widely discussed topic in the realm of computers and the internet. Developed by OpenAI, it represents a cutting-edge application of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology that has been made available to the public. This is an interview conducted with ChatGPT about the subject of knowledge...
Digital burnout is becoming increasingly common in our fast-paced and digitally connected world. With technology playing such a significant role in our daily lives, it's important to understand the signs of digital burnout and develop strategies to deal with it.
ادى انتشار مرض كوفيد 19 في ارجاء العالم الى اجبار شركات الاعمال التجارية على تجديد وتغيير الطريقة التي تقوم فيها بتسيير عملها .فقد اصبحت المكاتب اقل اهمية وفجاة اصبح العمل من المنزل الزاميا . هذه الحاجة المفاجئة للعمل من المنزل كان من شانها ان تسرع في التحول الرقمي للقوة العاملة وتطوير بيئة العمل بسرعة غير مسبوقة . لقد اصبح الاعتماد على العمل عن بع...
The GL2021 Conference 1 offered the many and diverse communities of practice in the field of grey literature a unique opportunity to collaborate in addressing and defining the next phase in the digital transformation of grey literature. In preparation for this conference, a panel session on the future of grey literature was planned on the program;...
Digital transformation makes an impact on organizations and businesses affecting many of their activities, either in a positive or a negative way. Once an organization starts on the road of digital transformation the impact is always considerable and long-lasting. Due to the specific nature of digital transformation to be able to impact whole indus...
Arabic translation of the original article "COVID-19 and Work from Home: Digital Transformation of the Workforce".
مجلة هيئة الطاقة الذريّة السورية
Journal of The Atomic Energy Commission of Syria (A Refereed Research
Journal).
Using this guide, collection managers and acquisitions librarians, preservation librarians, catalogers, and library managers will understand how to utilize the technical services workflow to process and showcase the grey literature.
Online Searcher - this article considers the impact of digital transformation on the future of library work. First, I identify the enablers and drivers of digital transformation. I then describe four possible impacts digital transformation could have on libraries. The first impact is on the future of library products and services. In other words, t...
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In the modern era of artificial intelligence and machine learning, data mining is becoming an important tool for determining public opinion and social research. In this regard, sentiment analysis is a new method of studying public opinion, in particular, as a nontrivial approach to the analysis of political texts. This paper examines the...
INIS was established in May 1970, as a mechanism to provide access to a comprehensive
collection of references to the world’s nuclear literature. It has grown from a modest 25-
member endeavour to a unique global information resource with a membership of 132
countries. INIS maintains a repository of over 4.4 million bibliographic records, of which...
A change from analog to digital is upon us. Economy and society, science and education, culture and politics, and our private and business lives are all undergoing a digital transformation. During a short period of time, we have moved from experimentation to implementation. While some of the most advanced and complex systems based on artificial int...
One of the things that came into our lives almost unnoticed during COVID-19 is a new vocabulary. In a very short time, we accepted and started using so many new words and terms.
The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) was established in 1970 "to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy". 132 countries contribute their national nuclear literature, making it the world's leading open access repository for nuclear science and technology literature. Explore INIS a...
Published by the Journal of Aalam Al-Zarra (Journal of Syrian Atomic Energy Commission). Translation to Arabic of an article originally published in the International Journal on Grey Literature, Vol. 15, Special Winter Issue (2019). Translation & preparation by Nazem Skheita & Ghada Samir.
Logic puzzles designed specifically for adults, offer cognitive challenges and force us to think rationally, to apply critical thinking, and to focus our attention and efforts in new, sometimes unexpected ways.
The outbreak of COVID-19 around the globe forced businesses to innovate and change the way they conduct their work. Offices have become less important and work from home has suddenly become mandatory. This sudden need for work from home is driving the digital transformation of the workforce and the evolution of the work environment at an unpreceden...
Following digitization and digitalization, digital transformation is the next step in the automation of grey literature management. A brief historical overview and analysis of current trends will shed some light on terminological differences in these three terms, but also on more important conceptual differences. At one time, these terms were used...
Digital transformation changes the way we do business and disrupts industries and work processes, while challenging existing management practices and, in some instances, the nature of the work itself. While much attention is devoted to various digital tools such as AI, cloud computing, big data, and mobility, digital transformation is much more tha...
Conformity to facts, accuracy, habitual truthfulness, authenticity, information source reliability, and security have become important concerns. Trustworthiness of news and information, and of grey and other literature types has become of interest to the public, as well as to many information science and technology researchers. Starting with a defi...
Damascus University Journal of Basic Sciences 2019
Translation of article 'Using a Google Search Appliance (GSA) to search digital library collections: a case study of the INIS Collection Search'. Italian Journal of Library and Information Science (ISSN: 2038-1026). No. 2, Vol. 5 (2014), pp. 61-83, JLIS.it
Information management is one of many areas being affected by artificial intelligence (AI). From science fiction to Google's search algorithms, self-driven cars, chatbots, and factory robots, AI has become part of our daily reality. Many books, articles, and blogs have been written, elaborated, and debated in numerous fields and industries about th...
Advances on Human Interaction and Thinking
- We create software to consolidate and store knowledge
- Storing and handling knowledge is not easy
- Humans users often bypass it for human interaction
Digitization, digitalization, digital transformation - different terminology or different concepts?
WorldWideScience.org - A Global Alliance Supporting Open Science and Innovations in Discovery
Presentation at a glance:
- Grey literature definition
- Data types (White – Grey – Dark)
- Grey data
- Shades of grey data
- Synthetic data
- Unsettling grey
- Conclusions
The world is at the dawn of a new industrial revolution that will fundamentally change the way we live and work. Many consider this the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). While the First Industrial Revolution (1IR) mechanized production using water and steam power, the second one brought mass production using electric power, and the third one was...
The International Nuclear Information System (INIS), created to facilitate international information exchange in the broad range of scientific and technical fields related to peaceful applications of nuclear power, currently employs a Knowledge Organization System (KOS) consisting of an advanced multi-language thesaurus and an in-house developed ex...
The 2018 WorldWideScience Alliance Annual Meeting took place on Monday, 10 September
at the British Library in London. In addition to the Annual Meeting, the WorldWideScience Alliance commemorated its 10th anniversary. This presentation was an overview of the work and achievements during the first 10 years.
Analysis of disruptive information technologies (IT) is based on five 2017 reports, issued by several leading international consulting companies with a special interest in researching the impact of IT on business and work environments. Four technologies were identified with a potentially high impact on information and grey literature management. Th...
Poster explains INIS mission, its repository, and its global cooperation with 154 IAEA member states ad international organizations.
Although diversity is defined as the state of having many different forms, types, ideas or properties, most often it is associated with cultural diversity or different ethnic backgrounds. Biology, religion, and political science researchers have their own view of diversity, such as biodiversity (i.e. variety of life on earth); religious pluralism (...
In the spring of 2014, a workshop took place at the Italian National Council of Research inPisa¹. The topic of this event dealt with policy development for grey literature resources. Some seventy participants from nine countries took an active part in the workshop - the outcome of which produced what is today known as the Pisa Declaration². This fi...
As one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, INIS represents an extraordinary example of world cooperation. Currently, as INIS members, 130 countries and 24 international organizations share and allow access to their valuable nuclear information resources, preserving them...
[éclairage] La recherche industrielle produit et consomme énormément de littérature grise. Elle est ici aussi bien source d’information que vecteur de communication. C’est ce qu’illustrent ces deux interviews, réalisées auprès de professionnels œuvrant dans le secteur de l’énergie.
Google Search has established a new standard for information retrieval which did not exist with previous generations of library search facilities. The INIS hosts one of the world’s largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. It offers on-line access to a unique collection of 3.7 million bibli...
Since its creation in 1970 until 1996, the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) collected and converted to microfiche over 312 000 non-conventional literature (NCL) reports received from IAEA member states and international organizations. The microfiche collection contains over 1 million items, with an estimated total of 25 million pages...
Democratizing nuclear information has its roots in the growth of a knowledge-based economy, the knowledge worker as a user of nuclear information, developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), and the impact of internet growth. Results of democratization are apparent in the process of information creation, in how nuclear informa...
This article deals with the process of cutter classification, i.e., assignment of cutter numbers for specific monographs. In other words, the focus is placed on the process of finding an appropriate alpha-numeric representation for the monograph's author or its title, in the event that an author is missing.
This study examines the present status of available knowledge and the state of the art of the methodology used for automatic classification of office documents. There is a wide spectrum of currently available and potential techniques. Their applicability to the task of automatic classification is examined through a literature review. In addition
to...
Cet article presente l’histoire des cinquante ans de la Bibliotheque de l’Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale. Le maintien de la collection complete des documents et des publications de l’OACI, de meme que ses fonctions et responsabilites sont etroitement lies aux buts et objectifs de l’OACI. Il decrit egalement la collection et les di...
Information resource management (IRM) has been with us for almost three decades. Numerous articles and monographs have been written about this interesting unconventional field of management. This article sheds some light on the evolutionary path of IRM. Information explosion, proliferation of paper and extensive use of information handling technolo...
Includes index. Thesis (M. Phil.)--Loughborough University of Technoloby. Bibliography: p. 163-164a. Photocopy. s