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Innovation has a cost. It is often the case that museums trying to innovate, simply cannot afford what it takes to build truly memorable exhibitions. Lack of human resources and high-tech equipment makes it hard to create quality contents that could be shown to the general public. Nevertheless, universities' museums are usually embedded in an environment that has the potential to provide all the tools and human resources required. The only thing needed is to establish a proper strategy and an interaction facilitator platform - U.OpenLab - which enables creating, building and sharing knowledge about the museums' collections and the academic population. This will make it easier to distribute the aforementioned knowledge to the general public, in a truly sustainable, systematic, integrated and articulated manner. In this paper we are going to present the University of Porto (U.Porto) OpenLab prototype that is being built as the stepping stone of this project, providing students with learning in a project environment.

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Apresenta o Modelo de Gestão do Sistema de Informação Ativa e Permanente (MGSI-AP), resultado de uma investigação que discutiu conceitos e perspetivas em torno da Gestão da Informação, posicionou-a como área transversal e aplicada em Ciência da Informação, com foco no(s) fluxo(s) infocomunicacional(ais), atendendo de forma particular aos que ocorrem em meio digital, no contexto de uma instituição complexa – a universidade pública portuguesa – e respetivos serviços de informação. Aborda um dos eixos da operacionalização da investigação realizada e do modelo desenvolvido. Nele se destaca a estreita ligação da Gestão da Informação à área de estudo da Produção Informacional. A universidade, foco do estudo, é abordada numa dupla faceta sistémica e, consequentemente, complexa, isto é, entre o sistema organizado formal e o sistema combinatório de feição loosely coupled. A formulação de uma proposta teórico-metodológica e de modelação operacional convergiram para uma definição de Gestão da Informação.

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The paper introduces the Active and Permanent Information System Management Model (MGSI-AP). It results from an investigation that discussed concepts and perspectives about Information Management, positioning it as a transversal and applied area within Information Science, focused on info communicational flow, in a complex institutional context the Portuguese public University and related information services. The University is assumed in a complex and systemic double facet, between the formal organized system and the loosely coupled combinatory system. Here is presented one of the operationalization axes of the performed research and model. It highlights the close connection between Information Management and the area of studies of Information Production, framed by a theoretical-methodological proposal and operational modeling, which converge to an Information Management definition and the design of a Matrix of Components and Variables under analysis.