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Supporting Visual Access to a Distributed Organizational Memory Warehouse in the Web Environment

Supporting Visual Access to a Distributed Organizational Memory Warehouse in the Web Environment
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Author(s): Sree Nilakanta (Iowa State University, USA), Les Miller (Iowa State University, USA), Yunan Song (Iowa State University, USA)and Lei Zhu (Iowa State University, USA)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch112
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

Organizational memories play a significant role in knowledge management but several challenges confront their use. Artifacts of OM are many and varied. Access and use of the stored artifact is influenced by the user’s understanding of these information objects as well as their context. Topic maps are used in this implementation to represent user cognition of contextualized information. Topic maps allow for access and analysis of stored memory artifacts. The paper presents the design and development of an organizational memory warehouse with web access via topic maps.

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