Knowledge Architectures: Structures and Semantics

Knowledge Architectures: Structures and Semantics

by Denise Bedford
Knowledge Architectures: Structures and Semantics

Knowledge Architectures: Structures and Semantics

by Denise Bedford

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Overview

Knowledge Architectures reviews traditional approaches to managing information and explains why they need to adapt to support 21st-century information management and discovery.

Exploring the rapidly changing environment in which information is being managed and accessed, the book considers how to use knowledge architectures, the basic structures and designs that underlie all of the parts of an effective information system, to best advantage. Drawing on 40 years of work with a variety of organizations, Bedford explains that failure to understand the structure behind any given system can be the difference between an effective solution and a significant and costly failure. Demonstrating that the information user environment has shifted significantly in the past 20 years, the book explains that end users now expect designs and behaviors that are much closer to the way they think, work, and act. Acknowledging how important it is that those responsible for developing an information or knowledge management system understand knowledge structures, the book goes beyond a traditional library science perspective and uses case studies to help translate the abstract and theoretical to the practical and concrete.

Explaining the structures in a simple and intuitive way and providing examples that clearly illustrate the challenges faced by a range of different organizations, Knowledge Architectures is essential reading for those studying and working in library and information science, data science, systems development, database design, and search system architecture and engineering.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367219444
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/31/2020
Pages: 544
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Denise Bedford is currently an adjunct professor, Georgetown University's Communication Culture and Technology program, USA; Visiting Scholar at the University of Coventry, UK, and Distinguished Practitioner/Virtual Fellow with the U.S. Department of State. She currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management. Her educational background includes a B.A. triple major in intellectual history, Russian language, and German language; an M.A. in Russian and East European history; an M.S. in information science; and a Ph.D. in Information Science with focus on systems analysis and design, and economics of information.

Table of Contents

List of figures viii

List of tables xi

Preface xii

Acknowledgments xxiv

Section 1 Context and purpose of knowledge architecture 1

1 Making the case for knowledge architecture 3

2 The landscape of knowledge assets 18

3 Knowledge architecture and design 44

4 Knowledge architecture reference model 60

5 Knowledge architecture segments 76

Section 2 Designing for availability 91

6 Knowledge object modeling 93

7 Knowledge structures for encoding, formatting, and packaging 119

8 Functional architecture for identification and distinction 144

9 Functional architectures for knowledge asset disposition and destruction 169

10 Functional architecture designs for knowledge preservation and conservation 188

Section 3 Designing for accessibility 207

11 Functional architectures for knowledge seeking and discovery 209

12 Functional architecture for knowledge search 231

13 Functional architecture for knowledge categorization 255

14 Functional architectures for indexing and keywording 276

15 Functional architecture for knowledge semantics 296

16 Functional architecture for knowledge abstraction and surrogation 332

Section 4 Functional architectures to support knowledge consumption 355

17 Functional architecture for knowledge augmentation, derivation, and synthesis 357

18 Functional architecture to manage risk and harm 389

19 Functional architectures for knowledge authentication and provenance 407

20 Functional architectures for securing knowledge assets 429

21 Functional architectures for authorization and asset management 445

Section 5 Pulling it all together - the big picture knowledge architecture 463

22 Functional architecture for knowledge metadata and metainformation 465

23 The whole knowledge architecture - pulling it all together 487

Index 507

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