'in-context' enterprise content mangement

Since my last post about Photosynth, it occured to me that it provides a powerful metaphor to a term used in Bex Huff and Andy MacMillan's book, Transforming Infoglut!  The term they use is 'in-context' ECM.  It refers to information being delievered to us when we need it, where we need it, and in a useful format.  When information is delivered OUT of context it is referred to as 'useless information I must sift through to find what I'm after'.  

If you think about how Photosynth uses thousands of images, MAPS ALL THE POINTS THAT MATCH and then creates a 3D image from them, you can start to get a feel for what would happen if we could do the same with information.  Photosynth is to a photo library, what ECM Initiatives are to unstructured data!