Managing the information explosion
Today, one can access voluminous worldwide public information using standard handheld computer and ubiquitous network resources. Thus, anonymous data and available information, one can often draw damaging inferences about sensitive information. However, one cannot seriously propose that information with any links to sensitive information be suppressed. Society is experiencing unprecedented growth in number and variety of data collections as computer technology, network connectivity and disk storage space becomes increasingly affordable. Data holders operating autonomously and with limited knowledge are left with the difficulty of releasing information that does not compromise privacy, confidentiality or national interests. The survival of database depends on the data holder's ability to produce anonymous data because not releasing such information at all may obstruct the goals for which the data were collected, failing to provide proper protection within release may create circumstances that harm public or others. It is becoming increasingly difficult to produce anonymous and declassified information in today's globally networked society. Most data holders do not even realize the jeopardy at which they place national security information when they erroneously rely on security practices of the past as technology has eroded previous protections leaving the information vulnerable.
Research may imply examination as presented within desirable data collection in order to measure patterns of information growth as there shows that it is information distribution and not information production that has experienced explosive growth any timeframe as the process of management, management of information as an essential element of managerial practice, the need for research to address from perspective of manager. Information has always been the element in the performance of business and the effectiveness of management, and information technology can now transform the use of information to give managers substantial benefits in business planning and decision making. It is considered that information must be integrated into an organization’s overall management and planning system rather than being controlled by specialist IT professionals and that the manager has to be responsible for: people, their motivation and training; business systems, culture and environment and organization’s data resource. The ways in which business information processes can be analyzed and modeled are reviewed and it is explained that information models can enable better understanding of the organization by showing it in new and sometimes enlightening way. Some of the many complex issues associated with managing the change process and achieving successful implementation of the technologies will need to be in consideration.
The growth of technology has spawned still growing number of journals representing new technical methods as the journals may serve more to carry advertising than to convey new information of value for concept or reference, existence implies that needed information can account towards ‘information explosion’. The sense of information explosion may come simply from growth of basic medical science and its generation of new concepts, the new concepts and the associated new facts have called for new terms. Thus, new science generates new vocabularies. When these new terms begin to appear in journals that have heretofore dealt only with familiar concepts people may feel that they are being presented with too much new information for them to process for its possible usefulness. Recent research has focused on building better tools to help people manage their information (1996;2002). The proposed tools attempt to provide a more natural way of both organizing and accessing personal information. The need to present qualitative study examining what people did when working with their email, their file system, and the World Wide Web, to understand participants’ behavior, wanted to understand what people do with electronic information and to focus in particular on the situations in which people report exerting effort in locating information. For example, one participant might know she could find the phone number of a restaurant in particular email from colleague. In many of these cases, people were able to associate their information target with particular source.
People seemed to prefer to solve their need by using form of local navigation to find that source, similar to the Micronesian islanders’ situated navigation in (1987). Discuss related observation studies that focus on how people interact with information, examine search strategy and discuss the implications of results on information management tools. Previous observational studies have focused on users’ interaction with various different subsets of personal information, such as email, files and the Web. Whittaker and Hirshberg (2001) investigated personal paper archives to understand the value of paper over digital documents. Researchers found that in addition to using email as communication tool, people also used it to keep track of upcoming appointments and often used their Inboxes as to do lists ( 2000; 2000). The present and future problems of buying, storing, accessing, and using information needed for research work will not be solved by individual institutions, resources are limited and competition for them is unremitting and that few people in individual institution other than librarian have grasp on the size of the problems.
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