Open Directory - Reference: Knowledge Management: Information Overload
See also: - Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information. - An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format. - A collection of links about Information Overload. - Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed. - This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation. [PDF] (January 25, 2005) - Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents. (October 16, 2003) - Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald] (May 20, 2003) - Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis. (May 15, 2002) - Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data. (March 01, 2001) - An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.] (October 01, 2000) - Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain. (February 19, 1999) - Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans. (January 01, 1998) - Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape. (March 01, 1997) - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley. (October 30, 1995) - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society. (October 11, 1990)
