Knowledge Architectures: Structures and Semantics

✍ Scribed by Denise Bedford

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 545
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section 1 Context and purpose of knowledge architecture
1 Making the case for knowledge architecture
2 The landscape of knowledge assets
3 Knowledge architecture and design
4 Knowledge architecture reference model
5 Knowledge architecture segments
Section 2 Designing for availability
6 Knowledge object modeling
7 Knowledge structures for encoding, formatting, and packaging
8 Functional architecture for identification and distinction
9 Functional architectures for knowledge asset disposition and destruction
10 Functional architecture designs for knowledge preservation and conservation
Section 3 Designing for accessibility
11 Functional architectures for knowledge seeking and discovery
12 Functional architecture for knowledge search
13 Functional architecture for knowledge categorization
14 Functional architectures for indexing and keywording
15 Functional architecture for knowledge semantics
16 Functional architecture for knowledge abstraction and surrogation
Section 4 Functional architectures to support knowledge consumption
17 Functional architecture for knowledge augmentation, derivation, and synthesis
18 Functional architecture to manage risk and harm
19 Functional architectures for knowledge authentication and provenance
20 Functional architectures for securing knowledge assets
21 Functional architectures for authorization and asset management
Section 5 Pulling it all together – the big picture knowledge architecture
22 Functional architecture for knowledge metadata and metainformation
23 The whole knowledge architecture – pulling it all together
Index