A CIO mentioned library scientists joining knowledge work. The speaker predicts IT will try to own knowledge management by buying software, just like they did with data science. But knowledge is contextual and can't be managed by technology alone.
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Let me take this discussion back towards kind of context and knowledge, because this is also relevant to this topic that, um, now that increasingly, uh, I was just having a discussion with one CIO a few days ago about this. And, and, uh, she was asking about, uh, you know, library sciences that she's heard that library scientists, scientists are kind of, uh, now involved in these things, had lots of knowledge about that topic actually. And, and, uh, I said, yeah, they're basically now the hot potato of this era. Yeah. Data scientist was the sexiest job of, of, uh, what, 2000s or something? And, uh, I started thinking after that discussion that, oh my God, what is going to happen in many organizations is that now that context and knowledge management are big topics, IT organizations will try to start working on that. And what IT organization does when it starts working on knowledge management or something is it buys a technology, it sets up a technology, and then it says, here is your technology.