Knowledge Architecture: An Exploratory Workshop, 22 May 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 Leader: Bob Bater
Workshop 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
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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