摘3 [ 闻弦歌 ] 于:2006-12-05 02:11:39 复:922671
Knowledge development
In traditional knowledge management, capturing knowledge means searching knowledge objects based on taxonomy. The processes of creating new knowledge or deriving new knowledge from existing knowledge remained within small size communities formally or informally established by a few experts, and were intangible to large public.5
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Examples like Confucious (551-479 BC) and his seventy-two talent students (out of 3000 students) , Aristotle (384-322 BC) and his students;  traditional science correspondence among mathematicians, physics scientists, chemists, and etc. Academy of Sciences and kinds of profession societies/associations in different countries inherently encourage those knowledge development activities.
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IT professionals are developing technologies for restructuring the knowledge taxonomy. Text mining or “knowledge discovery in text” is one approach to deriving high quality information. Another more active approach is using tagging technology. The proposed Semantic Web based on XML and RDF,  is considered as the widest common-use application enabling computers and people working in cooperation (Aggar, 2004).  But the problem IT professionals have to deal with is that sometimes the derived knowledge has to be reexamined to make sure it is close to the user's specification, and should not be too abstracted to be meaningful.

IT professionals could also build knowledge management systems for helping professionals in all sorts of industries, which consequently provide more efficient working environment and create new value from the derived knowledge. Knowledge Management System (KMS) is “a distributed hypermedia system for managing knowledge in organizations, supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of expertise and knowledge” (“Knowledge Management System” at wikipedia). We can all agree that Information and Communication Technologies have already brought the conveniences integrating geographically distributed human resources within a big organization or across different organizations. Now we can see the large possibility to overcome knowledge gaps among different fields and get synergistic work done as Knowledge Management System grow to be mature in the near future.  Earley stated the framework of knowledge management system: “Most knowledge systems have at their core a repository of artifacts along with a means of submitting, vetting, approving, tagging, and reviewing knowledge objects”. These procedures should reflect the nature of knowledge objects in the context of that particular organization, and should be customized for being adapted into the organization in accordance with its particular business strategies.
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