Title :
The impact of Internet on scientific traditional knowledge
Author :
Ghobrial, Rafaa Ashamallah
Author_Institution :
Documentation & Inf. Centre, Khartown, Sudan
Abstract :
This paper attempts to identify main concerns of traditional knowledge with reference to scientific site. It aims to study the Internet as intermediary to interphased international communications, storage source to information, knowledge capital investment, and provider of multiservices to the different categories of the users. It attempts to adopt some of these benefits and necessities of Internet for the development of traditional scientific knowledge. This analytical study has been carried out to survey the content of some Internet Web pages and search engines and their impact on the development of traditional knowledge. Finally, it concludes that knowledge management receives more and more interest in the knowledge economy and is becoming more important than the traditional sources of economic power.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; knowledge management; scientific information systems; search engines; Internet; Web page; knowledge management; scientific traditional knowledge; search engine; Documentation; Educational institutions; Government; Internet; Investments; Knowledge management; Publishing; Search engines; Web page design; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8482-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2004.1307915