Knowledge Architecture: An Exploratory Workshop, 19 September 2007, at Aslib,
London
Programme Features
Information Architecture (IA) has established itself in recent years as a
portfolio of practices combining aspects of web design, usability, metadata
management and information science with a view to creating information systems
which people find both useful and usable. Yet, IA conventionally addresses only
one component of organizational competence - explicit knowledge (information).
Although information must be managed effectively, in the knowledge economy this
is not sufficient on its own, leaving out of account as it does, that other
vital component of organizational competence tacit knowledge. IA however, is
evolving in some quarters into Knowledge Architecture (KA), a compound
discipline addressing all the sources of organizational competence - explicit
and tacit - within a single, holistic framework. In order to add the missing
tacit dimension, an additional set of tools and techniques needs to be included
in the Knowledge Architect's toolkit.
This interactive workshop blends presentation, discussion and practical
exercises to consider the evolutionary stages involved in the transition from IA
to KA and to examine the most important tools and techniques involved. It
presents a number of case studies and invites delegates to discuss the
implications for information professionals, information managers, information
architects, knowledge managers and knowledge workers alike.
Topics include:
- The evolution of Information Architecture
- Content Scatter & Integration
- Case Study 1: The World Bank
- Metadata & interoperability
- Ontologies: the organizational context
- Vocabulary control: Taxonomies & Thesauri
- Case Study 2: A European Bank
- Knowledge Architecture: Communities & social networks
- Knowledge Architecture: Competence Management
- Case Study 3: An engineering organization
Who should attend?
Knowledge Architecture brings a variety of conventionally isolated roles and
functions together into a common framework for managing the totality of
organizational knowledge effectively. This workshop is therefore relevant to:
information professionals, documentalists, records managers, information
managers, knowledge managers, human resource managers, user-facing IT
specialists.
On completing the workshop you will have gained:
- an understanding of what IA is and how it is evolving into KA
- appreciation of the key roles of ontologies and vocabulary control
- an insight into the importance of communities and social networks
- familiarity with the types of problems encountered in KA
- recognition that KA and KM converge in Competence Management
Workshop Director: Bob Bater
Fee: £280 plus VAT (£329) Aslib corporate members / £350 plus VAT (£411.25) Non
members
To book your place, please visit: http://www.aslib.com/training/3/03.html
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Nicole Adamides, ASLIB Training
The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS
Tel: 020 7613 3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080
www.aslib.com/training Email: [log in to unmask]
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