JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 8(6): 652-661, doi: 10.3217/jucs-008-06-0652
Knowledge Nodes: the Building Blocks of a Distributed Approach to Knowledge Management
Matteo Bonifacio‡, Paolo Bouquet§, Roberta Cuel|‡ University of Trento, Italy§ Department of Information and Communication Technologies University of Trento, Italy| Department of Computer and Management Sciences University of Trento, Italy
Corresponding author: Matteo Bonifacio ( bonifacio@itc.it ) © Matteo Bonifacio, Paolo Bouquet, Roberta Cuel. This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License. Citation:
Bonifacio M, Bouquet P, Cuel R (2002) Knowledge Nodes: the Building Blocks of a Distributed Approach to Knowledge Management. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 8(6): 652-661. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-008-06-0652 |  |
Abstract
In this paper, we criticise the objectivistic approach that underlies most current systems for Knowledge Management. We show that such an approach is incompatible with the very nature of what is to be managed (i.e., knowledge), and we argue that this may partially explain why most knowledge management systems are deserted by users. We propose a different approach - called distributed knowledge management - in which subjective and social (in a word, contextual) aspects of knowledge are seriously taken into account. Finally, we present a general technological architecture in which these ideas are implemented by introducing the concept of knowledge node.
Keywords
distributed knowledge management, knowledge nodes, context, epistemology