07. September 2012 @ ECKM2012

1. MANIFESTO FOR A STANDARD Peinl, René, Thalm
ann, Stefan, Hetma
ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN nk, Lars, Kruse, Pa
u l , S e e b e r, I s a b e l l a
SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE
, Pawlowski, Jan .
M., Bick, Markus,
M a i e r, R o n a l d , S c h
MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTS oop, Eric

2. CURRENT TEAM

3. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT – CHANGING
LANDSCAPES AND INSTRUMENTS
 Increasing interaction and collaboration
 Emergence of Social Software
 Importance of contextual information
 Beneficial for KM activities
 To be captured and re-used
 Lack of context representation in current systems
 Missing standards
 Our aim: Specification for contextual information

4. CURRENT STANDARDIZATION EFFORTS
 Technical standards (document formats, metadata)
 Dublin Core
 Learning Object Metadata (LOM)
 Business Process Model Notation (BPMN)
 IMS Learning Design Specification
 Contextualized attention metadata (CAM)
 RDF, OWL
 OOXML, PDF, ODF
 Human-oriented standards (guidelines and good practices)
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5. CONCEPTS AND TERMS
 Knowledge Activity
 Knowledge Activity Stream
 Knowledge Trace Knowledge
Worker
 Knowledge Object Perspective
Knowledge
Activity Stream
 Knowledge Bundle
 Knowledge Container Knowledge
Trace
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6. CONCEPTS AND TERMS
New Concepts Description
Knowledge Activity (KA) Goal directed actions within a user's context
Knowledge Activity Stream (KAS) Time-ordered list of knowledge activities (user-centric
perspective)
Knowledge Trace (KT) Codified representation of a user's action that captures
contextual information
Contextual Information Information, e.g. time, place, actions performed on
knowledge objects as well as related people and their
skills
Knowledge Object (KO) Codified knowledge of externalized knowledge (e.g.
paragraphs, tables, figures, mind maps)
Knowledge Bundle (KB) Collection of knowledge traces that are affiliated to a
knowledge object (object-centric perspective)
Knowledge Container (KC) A set of knowledge objects and their corresponding
knowledge bundles
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7. PROPOSED SEMANTIC MODEL
... ...
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...
Knowledge
Context
Object
Knowledge has
DC
Bundle LOM
CAM
BPEL
W3C
uses POI
location
System ge
n
pro erate
vid s/
es ActivityStreams CAM
hCal
time
records
Knowledge Trace Event
- action
BPMN ga
g re
ag d in
te
Process
target
engaged in
ActivityStreams
part of
Activity OpenSocial
ActivityStreams
schema.org FOAF
hCard SIOC
Organi- has acts as part of
Actor Person Community
zation
knows FOAF

8. USE CASE
 Collaborative development of research paper
 literature review
 tables
 ontology
 first draft
 discussions
 e-mails
 video conferences
 …
 Potential challenge
 integrate an additional member
…

9. CONCLUSION & OUTLOOK
 We need new ways of representing knowledge management in
standards.
 The paper identifies six major concepts that are needed to
foster knowledge exchange between social environments.
 This work represents an initial step of the development
towards a potential standard .
 Next steps
 Development of ontology-based standard
 Develop use cases
 Open discourse (Discuss, Test, Improve!)
 Launch interest Group (e.g., within European Standardization
Body CEN)

10. CONTACT
Thank You!
Paul Kruse paul.kruse@tu-dresden.de Twitter (for slides):
@hoellenpaul