General Topic Area

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General Topic Area

• At the High Level Development of a Knowledge
  Management (KM) construct that will enhance
  Organizational Knowledge Creation
• Pertinent research areas of interest
• Grouping information sensibly
• Ontology Representation
• Multi-dimensional aspects
• Event Chains
• Storing Knowledge
• Topic Maps Semantic Networks
• Searching for Knowledge
• Data Indexing and Tagging
• Creating Knowledge
• Use of Weblogs for knowledge creation

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TEMPORAL (DATE/TIME)
SPATIAL (REGION)
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KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION THAT IS ACTIONABLE

• Question How do you turn a traditional IT
  organization into a Knowledge Organization?
• Solution
• Technical Make information relevant and
  Value-Added
• Political Obtain Buy-In stakeholders,
  especially recognized experts and Senior
  Management
• Next Question How do you make information
  relevant, Value-Added, and a catalyst for
  Knowledge Creation?
• Solution
• Make information searches relevant
• Ontologies, Topic Maps, Semantic Networks, data
  indexing and tagging, collaborative tools
  (Weblogs)
• Link information to help analysts draw
  conclusions

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Freese, E., Using Topic Maps for the
Representation, Management Discovery of
Knowledge, ISOGEN International, Dallas, USA,
2000.

• Topic Maps (ISO/IEC 13250) Describes a
  mechanism for representing information about the
  structure of information organizing it into
  topics

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• Topics have Occurrences and Associations
• Similar to Semantic Networks

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Freese, E., Using Topic Maps for the
Representation, Management Discovery of
Knowledge, ISOGEN International, Dallas, USA,
2000.

• Significance of the Work
• Identifies the differences between Topic Maps and
  Semantic Networks
• Describes how semantic networks might be created
  from topic maps
• Area to be further investigated
• Can Topic Maps be used to model knowledge?
• How similar are Topic Maps and Ontologies, and
  can they be easily integrated?
• How scalable are Topic Maps?

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Ashley, C., Weblog part II A Swiss Army Web
Site?, Berkeley Computing and Communications,
Spring 2002.

• Weblogs are template-based, database-driven,
  browser-edited websites that support information
  and knowledge sharing, and community
• similar to an online journal, that is continually
  updated by a community of participants who share
  a common interest.
• Weblogs are
• Commonly created using XML
• Database driven
• Provide automatic archiving of shared information
• Helps to capture and create Knowledge

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Ashley, C., Weblog part II A Swiss Army Web
Site?, Berkeley Computing and Communications,
Spring 2002.

• Significance of the Work
• Provided descriptions of how weblogs can, and
  are, used for knowledge management, community
  building, teaching and learning
• Area to be further investigated
• Paper assumes contributors know what they are
  talking about
• How can author credibility be established?
• How can non-repudiation be implemented in
  Weblogs?