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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify the usefulness of Weblog genre analysis in knowledge creation within an organization where communications are occurred frequently among the employees with information and communication technologies (ICTs). Knowledge creation is essential to achieve competitive advantage in today’s knowledge-oriented working environments. There has been huge investment on knowledge management systems to achieve such advantages. It is, however, widely recognized that distributed knowledge management systems often fail due to the different social contexts across the sub-organizations where the local information systems are deployed. It is important to coordinate such social gaps across the sub-organizations to achieve better advantages. Given that Weblogs users often feel a shared social norm, Weblogs play a positive role of narrowing the social gaps. This paper argues that the genre analysis of Weblogs could provide important clues to narrow the social gaps existed across the sub-organizations within an organization. Hence, such taxonomical practice may be a solution for the high rate of failure in knowledge management system implementations in an organization. This paper uses the theory of organizational knowledge creation (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995) and social construction of technology (SCOT) approach (Bijker, 1995) to compare the socialized with the non-socialized integration of distributed information systems. The findings of this research provide a useful framework for better implementing knowledge management practices especially in distributed working environments.

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인터넷의 보급 및 이용 활성화에 따라 인터넷을 통한 정보의 검색 및 획득이 정보검색의 일차적인 행태가 되고 있다. 인터넷을 통한 정보검색의 보편화는 인터넷 정보검색 포털이 제공하는 검색서비스의 중요성을 증대시키고 있다. 포털에서 제공하는 정보검색 서비스의 효율화는 인터넷 정보검색 환경의 효율화로 직결될 수 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 인터넷 정보검색 포털에서 제공하고 있는 서비스 가운데 인터넷 정보자료를 선별하고 조직화하여 제공하고 있는 디렉토리 서비스의 분류체계에 대해 고찰하였다. 구체적인 연구주제로 전통적인 문헌분류법에서 여러 주제분야에 공통적으로 적용될 수 있는 형식, 접근법을 모아 구성한 표준구분(standard subdivision) 항목들을 디렉토리 분류체계에서 어떻게 전개하고 있는 지 현황을 분석해 보았다. 이러한 분석을 기반으로 전통적인 문헌분류법의 표준구분에 포함된 항목들을 디렉토리 서비스에서 전개하는 방안을 제시하였다.

Abstract

With the rapid distribution and active usage of the Internet, information search and retrieval through Internet has become a primary form of information access. This ubiquity of information access through Internet means the increased significance of search performance offered by Internet portals, since the optimization of search performance by portal has strong implication for the effective access of information through Internet in general. In this context, this paper investigates the classification scheme used in the directory service of internet portals, which provides selected and organized access to Internet information. First, the author analyzes the deployment of directory classification of standard subdivision topics used in traditional library classification system, with emphasis on the table composed of the form and approach, which are applicable to diverse subject areas. Then, based on this analysis, he proposed a method of applying certain subdivisions of the standard subdivision to directory service of Internet portals.