A comparative study between different models for organization of large electronic collections is shown. The research identified three types of organization: decentralized, centralized and hybrid. The adoption of each one depend on context and strategic factors. The decentralized model is more appropriate due to the better cost-benefit relationship; the concentrated model offers more governance, but it uses proprietary standard technologies; and the hybrid model in the long term is the most flexible and least vulnerable to changing technologies, although it is the most expensive.
Information science (IS); Information organization; Information models; Information architecture (IA); Information technology architecture (ITA); Contend Management (CM)
