In the development and utilization of information, information sources can be continuously converted into information resources.
在信息的开发利用中，信息源可以不断转化为信息资源。
Compared with material and energy, information resources have many particularities. These particularities include:
- Sharing: This is the natural characteristic of information resources
- Timeliness
- Non-separability in production and use
- Drivability
- Accumulation and regeneration
与物质和能源相比，信息资源具有许多特殊性。这些特殊性包括：
1.共享：这是信息资源的自然特征
2.及时性
3.生产和使用中的不可分性
4.驾驶性能
5.积累与再生
Since the 1960s, people have gradually realized in the practice of economic activities that resources not only have various material forms, but also include non-material information forms such as knowledge, experience and technology. The former includes material resources and energy resources, while the latter is information resources, which are intangible resources or intangible social wealth and very important resources in the information society.
20世纪60年代以来，人们在经济活动的实践中逐渐认识到，资源不仅有各种物质形式，还包括知识、经验、技术等非物质信息形式。前者包括物质资源和能源，后者是信息资源，是无形资源或无形的社会财富，是信息社会中非常重要的资源。
Information resource management (IRM for short) refers to managers (such as central or local government departments, enterprises or public institutions) use modern management means and methods to study the rules of information resource utilization in economic activities and other activities in order to achieve predetermined goals. And organize, plan, coordinate, configure and control information resources according to these rules.
信息资源管理（Information resource management，简称IRM）是指管理者（如中央或地方政府部门、企业或事业单位）在经济活动和其他活动中，运用现代管理手段和方法，研究信息资源利用的规律，以达到预定的目标。按照这些规则组织、规划、协调、配置和控制信息资源。
The goals of information resource management can be divided into general goals and sub-goals.
The general goal is the ultimate goal and the most fundamental program of information resource management, and it is also the final result of the interaction between the subject system of information resource management and the managed object system.
The independent and specific target of information resource management system is the sub-goals of information resource management. sub-goals serve to ensure the realization of the overall objectives and are restricted by the overall objectives.
信息资源管理的目标可以分为总体目标和子目标。
总目标是信息资源管理的终极目标和最基本的程序，也是信息资源管理学科体系与被管理对象体系相互作用的最终结果。
信息资源管理系统独立而具体的目标是信息资源管理的子目标。子目标是为了确保总体目标的实现，受总体目标的制约。
Information resource management tasks include:
- Formulate strategies, plans, guidelines and policies for the development of information resources; So that the development activities of information resources can be carried out in an orderly manner under the unified guidance and management of the state, so that the development results of information resources can not only have low cost and low price, but also achieve three “closeness” (i.e. close to reality, close to demand and close to users); Meet the overall needs of national economic and social development.
- Formulate laws, rules and regulations on information resource management and establish a supervision and guarantee system for information resource management; So that the developed information resources can be fully, timely and effectively utilized.
- Coordinate the relationship among various departments, regions and enterprises by comprehensive use of economic, legal and necessary administrative means, clarify the boundaries of responsibilities, rights and benefits of information resource development and utilization agencies at all levels, so as to maximize resource sharing on the basis of equality and mutual benefit.
- Strengthen the construction of national information infrastructure and information resource management network, so that the development and utilization of information resources can be established at a higher starting point and on a good social basis.
信息资源管理任务包括：
1.制定信息资源开发的战略、规划、方针和政策；使信息资源开发活动在国家统一指导和管理下有序进行,使信息资源开发成果不仅成本低,价格低,，同时做到三贴近（贴近现实、贴近需求、贴近用户）；满足国民经济和社会发展的总体需要。
2.制定信息资源管理法律、法规，建立信息资源管理的监督保障体系；使开发的信息资源得到充分、及时、有效的利用。
3.综合运用经济、法律和必要的行政手段，协调各部门、地区和企业之间的关系，明确各级信息资源开发利用机构的职责、权利和利益界限，在平等互利的基础上最大限度地实现资源共享。
4.加强国家信息基础设施和信息资源管理网络建设，使信息资源的开发利用有更高的起点和良好的社会基础。
The significance of information resource management
Information resource management opens up a new management world
Strengthening the management of information resources is a necessary condition for the rational development and effective utilization of information resources
Strengthening information resource management is conducive to ensuring the legitimate rights and interests of information resource development and utilization organizations
信息资源管理的意义
信息资源管理开辟了一个新的管理世界
加强信息资源管理是合理开发和有效利用信息资源的必要条件
加强信息资源管理，有利于保障信息资源开发利用机构的合法权益
information resource management activities can be correspondingly divided into three levels of macro management, medium management and micro management. In the three levels of information resource management, macro management and medium management are the premise of micro management, and micro management is the foundation of macro management and medium management. Different management levels contain different management content.
信息资源管理活动可以相应地分为宏观管理、中期管理和微观管理三个层次。在信息资源管理的三个层次中，宏观管理和媒介管理是微观管理的前提，微观管理是宏观管理和媒介管理的基础。不同的管理层次包含不同的管理内容。
Technical means of information resource management
The technical means of information resource management refers to the modern information system and information network based on computer and communication technology and the corresponding information processing methods. It is the main means and content of information resource management.
Modern information resource management is essentially achieved through information systems and information networks. Information systems and networks, as basic technical means, are important fields of modern information resource management.
信息资源管理的技术手段
信息资源管理的技术手段是指以计算机和通信技术为基础的现代信息系统和信息网络及其相应的信息处理方法。它是信息资源管理的主要手段和内容。
现代信息资源管理基本上是通过信息系统和信息网络来实现的。信息系统和网络作为基本的技术手段，是现代信息资源管理的重要领域。
The means and methods of information resource management are varied and there is no fixed pattern. According to its nature, the main means of information resource management are as follows:
Technical means
Economic means
Legal means
Administrative measures
The means and methods of information resource management are varied and there is no fixed pattern. According to its nature, the main means of information resource management are as follows:
Technical means
Economic means
Legal means
Administrative measures
信息资源管理的手段和方法多种多样，没有固定的模式。根据其性质，信息资源管理的主要手段如下：
技术手段
经济手段
法律手段
行政措施
Compared with economic means, the legal means of information resource management has the characteristics of universal constraint, strict compulsion, relative stability and clear stipulation.
与经济手段相比，信息资源管理的法律手段具有普遍约束性、严格强制性、相对稳定性和明确规定性等特点。
