April 11th, 2006
Does this sound familiar to you? But is there a panacea around? Topic Maps (t d f) another shibboleth to get hold of knowledge date back to the year 2000.
They promise to be humble but sufficient to create networks of data and provide findability. Topic maps are not about attributes but about relations therefore supportive of information browsing - a prerequisite of knowledge formation.
IT Directions - ebizQ: “Firstly, the lower layers of the RDF stack (the layers used by most tools) support only hierarchical categories of information: taxonomies rather than networks (t d f). This means that such tools impose an unnatural ordering upon business knowledge (t d f). For example, Autonomy claims that their: “Taxonomy (t d f) Generation feature can automatically and consistently understand and create deep hierarchical contextual taxonomies of information based on conceptual understanding” and Entrieva claim that their SemioSkyline product enables “users to browse or search for information organized by category within a familiar, hierarchical structure” [my italics]. However, most business knowledge is more like a network than a tree. Knowledge categories do not generally divide neatly into parents, children, grandchildren and so on ” rather, links between them may occur all over the place. Even if multiple taxonomies are used together, business people do not really see their world in hierarchical terms.”
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