1. Information and
Knowledge Management
Class4: File Sharing Tools
Marielba Zacarias
Prof. Auxiliar DEEI
FCT I, Gab 2.69, Ext. 7749
mzacaria@ualg.pt
http://w3.ualg.pt/~mzacaria

2. Summary
Knowledge as an asset
Origins of the knowledge worker
Types of Intellectual Capital
Initial definition of the types of knowledge
Knowledge Management vs Re-engineering
Web 2.0 Tools
Document sharing

3. Tool Section

4. File Sharing
• Practice of distributing or providing access
to digital information including
• audio, images, videos
• documents, books
• links
• software

5. File sharing Modes
• Removable media (pen drives, cds)
• Centralized computer file server
installations
• web-based hyperlinked documents
• peer-to-peer networking

6. File sharing history
• Before 1978
• removable media
• 1978 (BBS), 1979 (Usenet), ftp (1985)
• Unstructured p2p (1999) - Napster
• Kazaa, BitTorrent
• Now, mostly web-based sharing

21. Tags & Tagging
• User provided keywords to classify files
• Known as
• Content tagging,
• collaborative tagging,
• social tagging
• “folksonomy” (people’s taxonomy)

22. Benefits/Issues
• Users do not have to abide to formally defined categories (free assignment of
keywords)
• Assigned by content creators/distributors
• Problems
• Same terms with different meanings, different names with similar meanings
• Lack of orderly structure
• Leads to search confusion and inefficiencies when content consumer when
content consumers and producers do not have shared meanings for terms
• Public and Publisher Tagging