Digital Content
Articles and resources about trends and issues in the creation and use of digital content data repositories, and the development of digital strategies by government.
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Digital Archives
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Articles and resources about trends and issues in the adoption of digital archives by government.
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Digital Libraries
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Articles and resources about trends and issues in the use of digital libraries within government.
- Digital Broadband Content: Public Sector Information and Content - in pdf format (669kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader).. Working Party on the Information Economy. Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 30 March 2006. DSTI/ICCP/IE(2005)2/FINAL. "Public bodies hold a range of information and content ranging from demographic, economic and meteorological data to art works, historical documents and books. Given the availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) public sector information can play an important role in producing innovative value-added services and goods. Furthermore, these technologies also provide a wider population better access to educational and cultural knowledge. Both commercial opportunities and the wider spread of information have positive economic and social benefits... This study addresses challenges and related policy issues with respect to both PSI and public sector content. It is a first review of the area of public sector information and content and it is proposed that follow-up work be carried out in this area, particularly on the economic and distributional aspects of different access, cost, pricing and distribution models for public sector information and content..."
- Data Quality Management Promises Huge Savings
- by Sue Bushell. CIO, 6 June 2006. "A Queensland government department is saving more than $300,000 a year in known and measurable costs because it addressed the quality of data in one of its smallest transactional procedures..."
- Leadership needed to handle data
- by Thornton May. Computerworld, 20 April 2006. "A good friend who occupies a major position in a prominent global financial services firm is very concerned about the state of leadership in matters involving the management of personal information. To make this point come alive, my friend recently challenged a group of alpha executives attending a Value Studio at the IT Leadership Academy to explain what they would do in the following hypothetical situation..."
This category last updated: 5 July 2010