KMS

'Knowledge Management System (KM System)' is a system for managing knowledge in organizations, supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of expertise and knowledge. more...

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The idea of a KM system is to enable employees to have access to the organization's knowledge of facts, sources of information, and solutions. For example, an engineer could know the metallurgical composition of an alloy that reduces sound in gear systems. Sharing this organization wide can lead to more effective engine design and it could also lead to ideas for new or improved equipment.

A KM system could be any of the following: 1. Document based i.e. any technology that permits creation/management/sharing of formatted documents such as Lotus Notes, web, distributed databases etc. 2. Ontology based: these are similar to document technologies in the sense that a system of terminologies (i.e. ontology) are used to summarize the document e.g. Author, Subj, Organization etc. as in DAML & other XML based ontologies 3. Based on AI technologies which use a customized representation scheme to represent the problem domain. In one research project, RST theory was utilized to represent automotive problems (Rosner et al. 1998).

Except for the first case, technologies based on ontologies and AI are still under development. The KM development process proceeds as follows:

'Benefits of KMS'

KM systems has become more and more popular as technologies continue to grow. Some of the advantages of KM systems are:

As well, having the information stored will help reduce mistakes and information will be captured without losing them over time.

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