Knowledge management
CSL's capability to store, retrieve, disseminate and exploit the increasing amount of data and information available is critical to it's role in providing evidence-based risk assessments. By developing innovative information technology solutions, particularly web-based tools, we can make full use of existing data and ensure that anyone who wishes to can acquire and utilise information that is topical and relevant.
CSL is renowned throughout the world for the quantity and quality of its scientific data, particularly across the agricultural, horticultural and food industries. Useful though these data are, their practical value depends on being available to those that can directly benefit from the insight they contain. Considering the high speed nature of modern commerce, it is also essential that data are available in an easily accessible form.
Knowledge management involves not only the distribution of data, but also its exploitation. Data and information gained from every area of CSL's work is correlated and interpreted using scientific methods and packaged in a number of ways to gain maximum value from it. Dealing with information and data in this way requires a specialist knowledge of the relevant science as well as data handling techniques.