Informationsressourcer

Informationsressourcer is a term used to describe the assets and materials that individuals and organizations rely on to locate, access, manage, and apply information. They encompass digital resources such as databases, repositories, metadata catalogs, search indexes, data sets, and software tools, as well as physical resources such as libraries, archives, and printed documents. They also include tacit knowledge held by experts.

These resources are typically organized, described, and governed to facilitate discovery, reuse, and long-term preservation. They can be categorized into data resources (databases, data lakes), document resources (manuals, reports, PDFs), knowledge resources (wikis, FAQs, ontologies), metadata and service layers (indexes, catalogs, APIs), and infrastructure resources (servers, storage, networks).

Management of informationsressourcer involves information governance, lifecycle management, access control, licensing, and privacy considerations. Standards and interoperability efforts—such as Dublin Core, MARC, METS, schema.org, and RDF/Linked Data—support discovery and integration across systems.

Institutional and research use cases include decision support, research, knowledge management, regulatory compliance, and digital preservation. Challenges include fragmentation, duplicate records, inconsistent metadata, data quality, licensing, and evolving privacy requirements. The concept emphasizes the value of organized, accessible information as a strategic asset and a foundation for learning, innovation, and responsible data use.