About TIMAF

Information? Management!

Some say we live in an Information Age. But the field of information management is currently fractured and incoherent. Each sub discipline (content, document, asset, records, data management to name just a few) has its own practitioners, applications and professional communities.

We believe that behind the seeming differences between these ‘managements’ there is a deeper unity that will eventually define a strong clear foundation for all of them. We do not believe that all managements will or should merge, but rather that just as business underlies accounting and finance there is a common foundation behind all forms of information management that practitioners should all know.

Information Management Best Practices

On the other hand, just as business is only practiced within a more specific context, information management is also practiced in context. Thus, we believe that the best way to illustrate the concepts and practices of information management is within the context of one or more subfields.

As a result, we envision a set of Best Practices that show global principles of information management in the context of one or more of the sub disciplines. We plan to publish an ‘Information Management Best Practices’ book every year.

Finally, we believe that the principles of information management differ in detail but not substance between nations. Thus, we propose that our best practices be drawn from around the world.

Information Management Framework

To provide a guide to the foundations of information management we will work concurrently on an Information Management Framework, which will be published in a book and online. The framework will bring the commonalities between sub disciplines to light and help to organise the best practices that we publish.

TIMAF Board

The Information Management Foundation is an initiative by Erik M. Hartman, president of Hartman Communicatie in The Netherlands and Bob Boiko, Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School and President of Metatorial Services in the USA.

The TIMAF Board of Editors represents an international group of academics and experts in the field of information management.