Where did all the knowledge go?

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Marren
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Business Organizations

Discusses the economy and knowledge management via a knowledge bases and looks at where this knowledge base is today. States knowledge is a human being’s rightful certainty of what is actually the case, but does not help directly with knowledge on the job. Uses an example of a knowledge creation of a substitute, robot‐like creature called a “Golem” with cautionary, tragic results, to show what could happen in business organizations.

Metrics for Concept-Oriented Knowledge Bases

1998 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 161-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy C. Lethbridge
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Management System ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Knowledge Management System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Develop Software

Metrics are widely researched and used in software engineering; however there is little analogous work in the field of knowledge engineering. In other words, there are no widely-known metrics that the developers of knowledge bases can use to monitor and improve their work. In this paper we adapt the GQM (Goals-Questions-Metrics) methodology that is used to select and develop software metrics. We use the methodology to develop a series of metrics that measure the size and complexity of concept-oriented knowledge bases. Two of the metrics measure raw size; seven measure various aspects of complexity on scales of 0 to 1, and are shown to be largely independent of each other. The remaining three are compound metrics that combine aspects of the other nine in an attempt to measure the overall 'difficulty' or 'complexity' of a knowledge base. The metrics have been implemented and tested in the context of a knowledge management system called CODE4.

E-Cocreation of Knowledge through Informal Communications

2011 ◽  
pp. 135-153
Author(s):  
Kazushi Nishimoto
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Free Riders ◽  
It Knowledge ◽  
Informal Communications

It is pointed out that the 21st century is an era of knowledge creation where productivity of knowledge is more important than the productivity of things. Therefore, improvement of the productivity of knowledge is an urgent demand from public organizations i.e., industry, academia and government as well as personal individuals. As a method to achieve it, knowledge management systems have recently been studied and developed. However, there have been few cases that could successfully improve the productivity of knowledge; many systems have been installed but not used. One of the principal problems of the ordinary attempts is, I think, the unbalanced way for sharing the knowledge. For example, experts are required to voluntarily provide their professional knowledge to create and to maintain a knowledge-base with many efforts so that novices as free riders can readily exploit the knowledge-base without any efforts. In order to solve and/or to avoid this problem, I focused on informal communications by chance as places for sharing knowledge and my laboratory has been constructed various e-cocreation systems to support sharing and creating knowledge in the informal communications. This chapter introduces some of the research efforts conducted in the author’s laboratory.

Knowledge Base of Cenozoic Volcanoes in China

2021 ◽  
pp. SP510-2020-147
Author(s):  
Bo Pan ◽  
Tao Cheng ◽  
Jiandong Xu ◽  
Jingwei Zhang ◽  
Zhengquan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
File Format ◽  
Volcanic Data

AbstractKnowledge management plays an important role in scientific research and provides a basis for technical development in the era of Big Data. Studies of Cenozoic volcanoes in China have been undertaken for more than half a century, generating plentiful relevant literature and data. However, these data have stayed scattered between different authors and libraries, and as such hamper management and access. Based on theories Knowledge Bases and related technologies, we developed the Knowledge Base of Cenozoic Volcanoes (KBCV) to collect such volcanic data in China. The directory tree of the KBCV is structured based on five levels according to the volcano distribution, magma origin, data type, and file format. Data handled by the KBCV supports querying, searching, and browsing. The KBCV can provide well-managed Cenozoic volcanic data and technical support for scientific research and public communication. The KBCV is still in its early stage and is imperfect with respect to data completeness and universalization of the system, and efforts are being made to continuously sophisticate and popularize the system.

scholarly journals The Impact of Intelligent Interfaces on the Performance of Knowledge Base Systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Abid Thyab Al Ajeeli
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Experimental Systems ◽  
Knowledge Base Systems ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

<div><p><em>Although Knowledge is recognized as a strategic force in organizations, knowledge creation and management is not simply the capture and storage of items of information. It requires the storage and processing of associations through which meaning can be derived from the information. Association can be represented in explicit and observable forms in a knowledge base. The paper discusses issues relating to design a better quality</em><em> interactive interface system for human to have a dialog with the knowledge management systems. At the same time, the paper investigates the ease of evaluation and implementation of a knowledge management system. It performs a major role in providing users with capabilities of dealing with underlying systems. Designing a good interface style using knowledge bases can have a profound effect on the nature of the dialog. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Interfacing a knowledge base oriented system can be seen as a dialog between the knowledge base and the user. It plays a major role in providing users with capabilities that deal with underlying systems. Designing a good interface style can have a profound effect on the nature of the dialog. Design of a user interface involves determining approaches in which users interact with the knowledge-based system. The design process, can be complex and multifaceted, begins by identifying system users, through classification of them to understanding their characteristics. The study investigates the improvement of performance by performing an actual study of many experimental systems sufficient to provide judgments for taking the right decision.  Results confirm that a good interface has a great impact on the performance of knowledge management systems. </em></p></div>

Effective Knowledge Management through Measurement

2013 ◽  
pp. 145-176
Author(s):  
Geoff Turner ◽  
Clemente Minonne
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
Strategic Approach

Knowledge is now recognized as the most important factor of wealth creation, meaning there is no clearer way to prosperity than assigning priority to learning and knowledge creation. This is of greater significance to educational institutions because they are the primary drivers in the generation, accumulation, and dissemination of knowledge. As such, the value of an educational institution to society will depend on its capacity to create and share knowledge, which is an unremitting cycle of discovery and dissemination, or the conversion of knowledge from implicit to explicit. The source of an institution’s value to society lies in its ability to continuously improve that process by developing a strategy for acquiring and effectively and efficiently managing its knowledge base as well as understanding how and why its value is changing. In this chapter, the authors consider how an institution knows whether it is managing its knowledge assets in a sustainable way and whether they have increased or diminished over a certain period by looking at several propositions already in existence. It then proposes its own strategic approach, the Knowledge Management Monitor, to assist in this management process.

Open Knowledge Base: Resources and Units of Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Pereira Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Knowledge Bases

This paper is about highlighting two categories of knowledge bases, one built as a repository of links, and other based on units of knowledge.

Beginning a journey of knowledge management in a secondary school

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Wing Chu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Despite the fact that schools should be places where learning occurs, most schools have overlooked the importance of knowledge. In contrast, commercial firms have recognized knowledge as a strategic intangible asset and a key resource of the enterprises. Therefore, enterprises have already harnessed knowledge to a great extent with wide practice of knowledge management (KM). The purpose of this paper is to show that KM could be applied to the education sector similar to the practice in the business world for leveraging intellectual assets. This paper examines how schools can kick off the process of KM implementation. This paper also reports what have been done and what should be done in KM implementation better in a school. This can give insights for schools which will try KM in near future. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a case study in a secondary school to explore how KM can be kicked off and sustained in a school setting. A KM system called knowledge base and a document management system called Digital Archive were developed to serve as the infrastructure for knowledge sharing. Lesson study and communities of practice (CoPs) were adopted to be the platforms for knowledge sharing among teachers in the school. A case study of the processes and lesson learned was done in this paper. Multiple sources of data, including observations, questionnaires and interviews, have been collected for evaluation. Findings In this paper, KM implementation was found to be effective through dual approaches: information-based and people-/interaction-based approaches. A knowledge base and a Digital Archive as knowledge repositories and lesson study and CoPs as platforms for knowledge sharing have been successfully established to facilitate sharing information/knowledge and nurturing a sharing culture and trust. Challenges faced and the related coping strategies during the process of implementation were shared and reflected. It was also found that building sharing culture is the critical turning point of the process of KM implementation. Breaking through the barrier of sharing was found to be very essential to KM implementation. Research limitations/implications This paper adopts case study methodology to report the process of KM implementation in a school. Although these results of the study conducted in one school may not be generalized to other school contexts, the lessons learned in the study will be a strong empirical evidence of research of KM implementation, especially in schools. Because of the limited number of prior studies and the importance of the pioneering work of launching KM implementation, this paper tries to address the research gap by using theory building from cases as a research strategy rather than theory testing research, especially in “how”and“why” in the steps of kicking off KM implementation in an unexplored research area. Practical implications This paper shows a case of KM implementation in a school with thoughtful procedures of implementing information-based and people-/interaction-based approaches. The paper is a showcase that will shed light on the processes and lessons learned and also helps to provide a model for schools who are interested in applying KM in their schools. Social implications Most people might think that KM can be applied only in commercial sector. This paper shows that KM can also be adopted in schools as well as other sectors. Originality/value This paper represents one of the pioneering work of implementing KM in a school. It hopes to make contributions for KM implementation also in the public sector within which are non-profit-making organizations.

scholarly journals Design, measurement and analysis of a Knowledge Management model in the context of a Mexican University

Innovar ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (59) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gibrán Rivera González ◽  
Igor Antonio Rivera González
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Leadership Culture ◽  
Measurement And Analysis ◽  
Question Survey

The paper aims to design and apply a Knowledge Management (KM) model within the context of a Higher Education (HE) institution in Mexico. The model is composed of six enablers: leadership, culture, structure, human resources, information technologies and measurement, which facilitate the processes of knowledge creation, storage, transfer and application. A 53-question survey applied to thirty-six (36) people allowed to evaluate the degree of development and implementation of knowledge enablers and processes. Objectivity, reliability and overall model fit were assessed.

scholarly journals A Correlation Study between Social Capital and Knowledge Management with Emphasis on the Human Capital - The Case Study: Payame Noor University of Hormozgan (Bandarabbas)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Mansooreh Dastranj
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Correlation Study ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge

<p>Universities because of the importance and position they play in the every countries’ socio-economic development, require attention to personnel social capital at the university, because the social capital, makes effective knowledge management possible.</p><p>With respect to the importance of social and human capital and knowledge management, the present study was done to explore the relationship between social capital and knowledge management with emphasis on the human capital.<strong> </strong></p><p>This research is survey- descriptive of correlation type and the required data were collected through library-field. The subjects in this study consist of Payame Noor University staff of Hormozgan province.</p><p>In this study, 54 staff of Bandar Abbas Payame Noor University were selected through random sampling. After gathering the required data through knowledge management questionnaire, knowledge management processes were measured based on the five dimensions such as the capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. In order to provide for the reliability of the questionaire cronbachs alpha was used. In order to check the significance of the difference between responses descriptive and inferential statistics such as regression, one way anova and t test were run using SPSS version 20. The result show that the staff means score of knowledge management was 76/66±20/48. The result shows that there was a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management. Also there was a significant relationship between social capital and the five components of knowledge management such as capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. Also there was a significant relationship between human capital and the component of knowledge management.</p>

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