scholarly journals Knowledge sharing and discovery across heterogeneous research infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Siamak Farshidi ◽  
Xiaofeng Liao ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Doron Goldfarb ◽  
Barbara Magagna ◽  
...  

Research infrastructures play an increasingly essential role in scientific research. They provide rich data sources for scientists, such as services and software packages, via catalog and virtual research environments. However, such research infrastructures are typically domain-specific and often not connected. Accordingly, researchers and practitioners face fundamental challenges introduced by fragmented knowledge from heterogeneous, autonomous sources with complicated and uncertain relations in particular research domains. Additionally, the exponential growth rate of knowledge in a specific domain surpasses human experts’ ability to formalize and capture tacit and explicit knowledge efficiently. Thus, a knowledge management system is required to discover knowledge effectively, automate the knowledge acquisition based on artificial intelligence approaches, integrate the captured knowledge, and deliver consistent knowledge to agents, research communities, and end-users. In this study, we present the development process of a knowledge management system for ENVironmental Research Infrastructures, which are crucial pillars for environmental scientists in their quest for understanding and interpreting the complex Earth System. Furthermore, we report the challenges we have faced and discuss the lessons learned during the development process.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Siamak Farshidi ◽  
Xiaofeng Liao ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Doron Goldfarb ◽  
Barbara Magagna ◽  
...  

Research infrastructures play an increasingly essential role in scientific research. They provide rich data sources for scientists, such as services and software packages, via catalog and virtual research environments. However, such research infrastructures are typically domain-specific and often not connected. Accordingly, researchers and practitioners face fundamental challenges introduced by fragmented knowledge from heterogeneous, autonomous sources with complicated and uncertain relations in particular research domains. Additionally, the exponential growth rate of knowledge in a specific domain surpasses human experts’ ability to formalize and capture tacit and explicit knowledge efficiently. Thus, a knowledge management system is required to discover knowledge effectively, automate the knowledge acquisition based on artificial intelligence approaches, integrate the captured knowledge, and deliver consistent knowledge to agents, research communities, and end-users. In this study, we present the development process of a knowledge management system for ENVironmental Research Infrastructures, which are crucial pillars for environmental scientists in their quest for understanding and interpreting the complex Earth System. Furthermore, we report the challenges we have faced and discuss the lessons learned during the development process.


2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Laszlo Hetey ◽  
Eddy Neefs ◽  
Ian Thomas ◽  
Joe Zender ◽  
Ann-Carine Vandaele ◽  
...  

Purpose This paper aims to describe the development of a knowledge management system (KMS) for the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD) instrument on board the ESA/Roscosmos 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft. The KMS collects knowledge acquired during the engineering process that involved over 30 project partners. In addition to the documentation and technical data (explicit knowledge), a dedicated effort was made to collect the gained experience (tacit knowledge) that is crucial for the operational phase of the TGO mission and also for future projects. The system is now in service and provides valuable information for the scientists and engineers working with NOMAD. Design/methodology/approach The NOMAD KMS was built around six areas: official documentation, technical specifications and test results, lessons learned, management data (proposals, deliverables, progress reports and minutes of meetings), picture files and movie files. Today, the KMS contains 110 GB of data spread over 11,000 documents and more than 13,000 media files. A computer-aided design (CAD) library contains a model of the full instrument as well as exported sub-parts in different formats. A context search engine for both documents and media files was implemented. Findings The conceived KMS design is basic, flexible and very robust. It can be adapted to future projects of a similar size. Practical implications The paper provides practical guidelines on how to retain the knowledge from a larger aerospace project. The KMS tool presented here works offline, requires no maintenance and conforms to data protection standards. Originality/value This paper shows how knowledge management requirements for space missions can be fulfilled. The paper demonstrates how to transform the large collection of project data into a useful tool and how to address usability aspects.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Ardiansyah Haryanto ◽  
Hady Efendy

The increasingly global business competition has an impact on the increasing demands of competitiveness among companies in Indonesia in order to survive, the ability of decision making and solving a problem and effective managerial capability requires the company has strong intellectual capital and embrace open system to be able to respond more easily to the needs and needs of stakeholders in the company. Knowledge Management System (KMS) is a system created to facilitate the capture, storage, retrieval, transfer and reuse of knowledge. The purpose of making KMS is to create and build technology that can help users to reduce the tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge to be used in dealing with a problem with knowledge in accordance with the procedures of a company or organization in the action to handle the problem. Every company or organization has done the implementation of knowledge management system, not least in Bank Central Asia (BCA). BCA's strategy focuses on growth, credit quality and efficiency that enable BCA to achieve high-quality growth and enhance its role as a transactional Bank providing payment settlement services in support of achieving a strong Indonesian economy and national development goals. This research explains how far the application of knowledge management system conducted by BCA.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Chaerul Anwar ◽  
Safitri Jaya ◽  
Prio Handoko ◽  
Marcello Singadji

The Knowledge in a study program or faculty at Higher Education is an asset that must be utilized by universities. Explicit knowledge can be in the form of meeting attendance, meeting schedules, minutes of meetings, teaching materials, documentation of the final session, letters (SK, ST, contract letters, etc.), certificates, reports, guidelines, manuals , memos, strategic plans, curriculum and so on. However, knowledge cannot be easily accessed by cross study programs or cross faculties at the college. Some study programs have done documentation so well that it has an impact on satisfying accreditation assessments. Study programs that have satisfactory accreditation can be an example for other study programs. A knowledge management system is needed to bridge the distance between study programs that have good governance and others. The results of the knowledge management system testing allow for the exchange of knowledge to become a means of improving the quality of governance both at the study program level and at the faculty level.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Leon A. Abdillah ◽  
Tri A. Purwanto ◽  
Eka P. Agustini

The development of science in the era of globalization is happening so quickly. The ability of humans to develop a variety of science (knowledge) is getting better with the tacit and explicit knowledge. From this development both tacit and explicit knowledge can be combined and varied to a Knowledge Management System. PT SCF (Limited) Palembang branch is a company engaged in the field of inspection and certification services. The problem faced by this company is that the process and media for sharing and transferring knowledge between colleagues is still small and not yet entrenched. This condition makes the company less effective in terms of producing and disseminating knowledge to staff quickly and accurately. Documentation of daily activities and routines are not carried out in a planned and integrated manner. Each department carries out its own activities in its own way, for example storing documentation on a CD, as well as a piece of paper. So the authors are interested in analyzing and designing Web Knowledge Management System. The method used is the object analysis and design method. While the tools for modeling using Unified Modeling Language (UML). The results obtained are a prototype web Knowledge Management System (KMS) that can be a media of information and knowledge sharing related to employee acceptance and training


Author(s):  
Brilian Sidhatama ◽  
Fatmasari Fatmasari ◽  
Iman Solikin

Knowledge pada era informasi ini sangat penting bagi perusahaan Pada Administrasi rumah sakit muhammadiyah Palembang ini memiliki asset pengetahuan yang penting yaitu tacit knowledge dan explicit knowledge. Namun  sayang, Knowledge Sharing yang ada di rumah sakit muhammadiyah Palembang ini belum berjalan dengan baik dimana tacit knowledge hanya dimiliki oleh karyawan tertentu, dan explicit knowledge seperti dokumen yang tersimpan di berbagai tempat penyimpanan. Solusi dari permasalahan tersebut yaitu membangun KMS bagian administrasi pelayanan di rumah sakit muhammadiyah Palembang. KMS pada bagian administrasi ini diperlukan untuk berbagi informasi dan sebagai referensi bagi para karyawan yang membutuhkan Aplikasi KMS yang dibangun menggunakan bahasa pemrograman HTML 5 dan basis data MySQL. Serta dengan menggunakan metode the 10-step knowledge management roadmap. Aplikasi KMS yang dibangun dapat membantu rumah sakit muhammadiyah dalam mengumpulkan pengetahuan tersebut kedalam suatu wadah, sehingga tidak akan kehilangan pengetahuan yang dimiliki karyawan dibagian administrasi.


Author(s):  
DIMITRIS PANAGIOTOU ◽  
GREGORIS MENTZAS

Managing knowledge in software development is very important, since software development is a human and knowledge intensive activity. The main asset of a software organization consists of its intellectual capital. In this paper we propose KnowBench, a novel knowledge management system that integrates into the daily software development process and can be used for capturing knowledge and experience as soon as it is generated by providing lightweight tools based on Semantic Web technologies. This approach supports developers during the software development process to produce better quality software. The goal of KnowBench is to support the whole knowledge management process when developers design and implement software by supporting identification, acquisition, development, distribution, preservation, and use of knowledge — the building blocks of a knowledge management system.


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