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Datamining, is the no trivial process of discovering valid patterns, new, potentially useful and comprehensible inside a group of data, as the definition of Piatetsky-Shapiro published in the magazine "AI Magazine".
To simplify, we could say that data mining treats to extract knowledge from data.
By means of a series of processes applied in different phases on the data in gross, and defined by an expert that know the meaning of these data, and have clear the aims that pursues, can extract relations between these data, discover unseen patterns and build models that describe this knowledge.
The phases by which would have to happen this process of finding of knowledge are the following:

- Definition of the datamining task.
¿What objective pursue ?
- Data selection
- Data preparation
- Application of datamining processes on the treated data
- Evaluation and interpretation of the model obtained
- Integration of the results in the information systems

It is a continuous process, and can feature of different iterations, where the results of an iteration feeds the start of the following.

By Lic. Lourdes Aja Quiroga.

Abstracs: The different meanings of the terms information management, knowledge management, and quality management are analyzed; as well as their relation to the information institutions activities. It is demonstrated that the existence of one of them implies the presence of the others, if the information institution is considered as an organization of knowledge and excellence.

Subject headings: MANAGEMENT CAPACITY; INFORMATION CENTERS; INFORMATION SCIENCE, QUALITY MANAGEMENT

In this publication Lluís Pastor, director of Management of Contents of the Universitat Oberta of Catalonia explains the methodology used for the management of contents of all the group UOC that optimizes, doing use of the last technologies, the organization and maintenance of the enormous and cambiante repositorio of material docente of quality that gestiona this university.
It includes the summary extracted of the same article, can consult the complete article in format pdf in
To an integral management of the contents

The best way to share the knowledge is to publish it in internet. Pues This is what go to achieve five libraries of Barcelona that take part in the project based in an agreement between the Generalitat of Catalonia and Google that consists in the digitalization of the impressive figure of more of 300.000 books. By if somebody is thinking already in the rights of author, the books that go to be digitalizados are of public command.

For more details on the news, can consult the article Google digitalizará 300.000 works of Catalan libraries stop to be able to read them in Internet

Inside the publications that elaborates the 'Center d'Innovació I Desenvolupament Business' of the Generalitat of Catalonia (CIDEM), can access to a series of guias for the management of the Innovation. One of them is the 'Guia of Gestió of the Coneixement', two documents in format PDF that illustrate perfectly in what consists the management of the knowledge in the companies and how can acometer a project that allow to implant this philosophy.
Along the document develop besides a fictitious history that does the reading much more amena and that allows to approximate the concepts explained to the real world, showing many of the usual problems that can find us in the companies, and how can arrive to resolve and obtain besides a series of competitive advantages if it does an effort to develop a culture of management of the knowledge.

In the document Guia of Gestió of the coneixement: Conceptes explain what is the management of the knowledge (and what is not) and desglosa in two main apartados:

Components of the Management of the knowledge

1. Organizational culture and strategic vision
2. People
3. Processes
4. Technology