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Ideation aspects
Closing notesRetrieval & Application aspectsStorage aspects
Searching aspectsPersonal
Knowledge Management
Srinivasan TatachariUsing IT for Research
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
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Is there a choice?
• Information is moving to electronic versions• Is there a choice?• Intimidating? Faint-hearted??• Learn new tools?
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Personal Knowledge Management
• Stages– Ideation– Search– Storage– Retrieval– Application
• Artifacts– Research papers, Ideas, electronic versions of
books, handbooks, snippets from websites ….
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Ideation
• Scribbles, notes• Mind-mapping tools
– Helps in abstraction, conceptualization and collation of ideas
– Brainstorming & collaborating– Xmind Mindmap tool
• Blogging ?
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Mind Map (example Xmind)
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Seek & Receive
• You search on-need or receive when ready– Library visits, journals by mail
• Google – the God of search? – Scholar– Sometimes just old Google.co.in
• Other databases: JSTOR, EBSCO …
• Usage of search keywords is ‘key’ to the search!
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References -> A to Z of EBSCO
Respective journals’ website
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Seek & Receive
• Email subscriptions for notifications – New articles, journals
• E-Mailing lists like those of AOM– Discussions, information sharing
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RSS feeds directly from journal sites
Subscribing to RSS
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Bloglines.com
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MS Outlook 2007
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Email/RSS feed from Google Alerts
OR
Google Scholar Alerts using yahoo pipesPipes: Google Scholar RSS/email
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Storing
• Print documents – physical archive, highlight– Highlight in PDF (License?)
• Manual classification: Folder structure, Filenames
• Personal Knowledge Management: e.g. KnowledgeTree software – Tag, classify, keywords, type of documents
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Store snippets, urls, images… in Evernote
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Zotero for Firefox stores PDFs,citations and others
Zotero is incorporating automatic extraction of citation info from existing PDF files! With beta 1.5b2. Very useful feature. Also syncs up with an online account to backup your database!! As of now beta
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Mendeley
• Mendeley features automatic extraction of citation info from your existing pdf! Allows you to sync this lib with an online mendeley server. Can even backup pdf files to this server. So you can research from anywhere!
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Retrieval & Application
• B(u)y memory !• Go by manual classification and open each file
to searchOR….
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Use desktop search tools: Copernic Desktop Search
Similar to (better than?) Google Desktop
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Retrieve snippets from Evernote
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Use references from Zotero for citation in Word
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Use references from Mendeley for citation in word
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RSS feed readers – Bloglines, MS outlook, snackr!
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Closure
• You may need administrative privileges• May not be the best tools/methods available
– Free!– Some are experimental – beware of crashes!!
• pptPlex – from Microsoft Labs!
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Thanks
Email: srini [dot] tata [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/srinitata
Now it would be great if you could share your ideas from your experience/
experiments!!