a study of the fluency and efficiency of flows of information, i.e., blockages, duplicative data collection, failure to coordinate and/or combine, etc. View records related to this term
a means by which an organization can better understand how the tasks and activities that it supports con tribute to its success
a systematic process through which an organisation can understand its knowledge and information needs, what it knows, the information flows and gaps
A method of analyzing and mapping information within an organization. During an audit the following questions are usually asked: What information exists in an organization? In what forms? What information is needed? How does information get distributed throughout an organization? How does information flow through an organization? What are the barriers to information flow? Where are the gaps/barriers? How is it used? How much does it cost? What value does it provide
A method of reviewing and mapping information in an organisation. An information audit looks at things like what information is needed, what information there currently is, where it is, in what forms, how it flows around the organisation, where there are gaps and where there is duplication, how much is it costing, what its value is, how it is used etc. Related term: Knowledge audit.
vérification d'information A systematic examination of information use, resources and flows, with a verification by reference to both people and existing documents, in order to establish the extent to which they are contributing to an organisation's objectives Source: Aslib
An information audit trail or information audit log is a chronological sequence of audit records, each of which contains data about when and by whom was a particular record changed. It can also include information about the actual changes that were made. It can enable the reconstruction and examination of the end states of data, and reconstruct the intermediate states that the data went through before the final state was established.