organizational memory
First Link
The paper starts with a discussion of the roles an organisational memory
(OM) should play and what kind of knowledge should go into it. We then
identify two kinds of integration problems. The first one is concerned
with integrating the know ledge bases of different knowledge-based systems
employed in an organisation int o one physically or virtually unified knowledge
base which is to be considered a s part of the organisation's OM. The second
problem concerns the integration of several representations of the same
knowledge with different degrees of formaliz ation, ranging from formally
represented knowledge via semi-structured text to p lain text. This is
an issue because formally represented knowledge, e.g. company regulations,
often also exists in textual form, and both representations are ne eded
for different kinds of tasks. It is argued that the two integration problem
s mentioned can only be solved by making use of a high-level language whose
repr esentation constructs are on the conceptual level (in the sense of
Brachman) and which covers all representational needs. We argue that such
a language can be m ade easy to use despite its being extremely comprehensive
if the representationa l ontology underlying its constructs is represented
explicitly.
Enter remarks here
28.08.97