Tag: Knowledge Repository

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Building a Knowledge Repository with MediaWiki

In the contemporary and rapidly evolving corporate landscape, effective distribution and control of information play a pivotal role in determining the success of an organization. MediaWiki, renowned as the software behind Wikipedia, emerges as a potent tool for consolidating and disseminating internal information within a company. By harnessing MediaWiki’s capabilities, organizations can create a centralized knowledge repository that enhances collaboration, streamlines processes and fosters continuous learning among employees.

1. Planning and Preparation:

The foundation of a successful knowledge repository lies in meticulous planning and preparation. Begin by identifying the primary knowledge needs within your organization. What information do employees frequently seek? This initial assessment will guide the structuring of content within the wiki, enabling a logical hierarchy through categories, subcategories, and pages.

Determining user roles and permissions is equally critical. Defining who can access, edit, and manage content ensures data integrity and aligns with organizational policies. Additionally, choose a suitable hosting platform based on your preferences—whether it’s an in-house server installation or utilizing a cloud-based solution.

2. Setting Up MediaWiki:

The setup phase involves the installation and configuration of MediaWiki. The installation process is relatively straightforward and supported by comprehensive online guides. Moreover, enhancing functionality through extensions is pivotal. Incorporating features such as user forums, discussion pages, and document attachments enriches collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Customization is key to fostering user engagement. By leveraging themes and plugins, tailor the wiki’s appearance to reflect your brand identity while ensuring an intuitive and user-friendly interface.

3. Populating the Wiki:

Commence content population by prioritizing essential information—address frequently asked questions, standard operating procedures, and reference materials. Cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing by encouraging and incentivizing employee contributions. Implementing review processes maintains content quality, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the repository.

4. Making the Wiki Useful:

Proactive promotion is crucial to maximizing the utility of the wiki. Conduct training sessions and communicate the benefits of the repository to employees, encouraging widespread adoption. Seamlessly integrate the wiki with other internal systems and resources, facilitating easy access and enhancing its value.

Continuous improvement is imperative. Collect feedback from users and stakeholders to iterate and enhance the wiki’s functionality and content based on evolving needs.

Additional Tips for Optimizing MediaWiki:

– Templates: Create standardized templates for content types to ensure consistency and efficiency.

– Rich Media: Enhance content with multimedia elements like images, videos, and diagrams for better comprehension.

– Cross-Referencing: Foster interconnectedness by linking related articles, facilitating seamless navigation.

– Version Control: Leverage version control features to track changes and revert to previous versions if needed, ensuring data integrity.

By diligently following these steps and integrating best practices, MediaWiki can evolve into a valuable asset, serving as a hub for knowledge accumulation and dissemination. A well-structured and actively maintained knowledge repository empowers employees, augments organizational efficiency, and fosters a culture of continuous learning.

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EXPERT’S NOTE: MediaWiki stands as a potent platform to transform information into a powerful asset, fostering innovation and efficiency within organizations. Embrace its capabilities, cultivate a collaborative culture, and witness the growth and evolution of your corporate knowledge repository.

Corporate Communications Press Release

IndraStra Global launches IGOR, an Open Access Repository

NEW YORK, July 17, 2018 – IndraStra Global, a digital publishing company and a key provider of strategic brand solutions for academics, corporates, and other professionals has recently launched its open access repository called “IGOR – IndraStra Global Open Repository – Hosted over Zenodo”. This significant step forward helps to enhance a publication’s research impact as well as visibility in a proactive manner.

Underlining the Open Access principles, IGOR allows contributing authors of IndraStra (anywhere in the world) to submit their pre-prints, post-prints, and other datasets over OAI-PMH enabled repository. The new open repository is based on Zenodo platform, created by OpenAIRE and CERN Geneva which accelerates time to indexing in the complex world of digital publishing.

Why Use Open Access?

By creating a free-to-use open access repository platform for research articles and datasets (published on IndraStra Global properties), the exorbitant expenses of library indexing in the form of article processing/submission charges disappear. “IGOR on a centralized repository platform like Zenodo, we remove all the extra administration and repository hosting fees of traditional indexing platforms,” says Rahul Guhathakurta, Publisher at IndrStra Global. He further clarifies that “With IGOR, nearly 100% of our effort goes to the authors and researchers. The only expense is the publication hosting charges over an HTML format to process the general search engine indexing which we would like to bear it by ourselves”.

Amrita Jash, who heads Indrastra Global’s editorial activities says that “a publication is validated and credited provided it has undergone the rigorous peer review process along with deep-level library indexing solutions”. She further adds, “IGOR is a way to reinforce our commitment to Open Access and also, it defines our integrity towards the field of scholarly publication by promptly and broadly disseminating the information in a transparent way”.

IGOR, as an Open Repository

IGOR provides 2-legged ORCID OAuth authorization during the login and at the same time, it allows multiple upload types as publications, posters, presentations, datasets, images, videos/audios, software, lessons, etc., and prepares it as search-engine friendly, especially the title, abstracts, keywords, and headings. Most researchers use specific terms which are only known by peers in their own fields. IGOR provides authors to choose the keywords commonly used and general to be optimized. Eventually, the submission could be picked up by the search engines from the world wide web.

During the upload, authors can also choose to mention the names of co-authors and collaborators along with the access rights of their works coupled with multiple copyright licensing options. Also, there is a provision to specify identifiers of related publications and datasets. Supported identifiers include DOI (with versioning option for Zenodo owned DOIs), Handle, ARK, PURL, ISSN, ISBN, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, ADS Bibliographic Code, arXiv, Life Science Identifiers (LSID), EAN-13, ISTC, URNs, and URLs.

About IndraStra Global

IndraStra Global is a New York-based digital publishing company, primarily focused on publishing and online media intelligence, based upon “O.O.D.A.” Framework. Company’s product portfolio, which combines data-driven analysis, assessment, and forecasting into multiple-publishing platforms, which in turn supports the nurturing of on-boarded legacy systems.

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