This paper proposes X-KIF – a new modeling language intended for implementing large, formal knowledge bases. The language originated from the SUO-KIF language, which has been used for implementing a large family of ontologies based on the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO).We address some...

LDAP based directory services constitute important parts of the IT infrastructure of many organizations and enterprises. They act as a central service for integrating new applications into an IT infrastructure and can be accessed by many different types of clients ranging from content management...

We introduce the concept of organizational knowledge maturing based on the idea of developing knowledge assets. We explain the dimensions that have to be considered and introduce the Knowledge Maturing Dimension Framework to measure the maturity level. Finally we describe service classes as the...

The established methods used for measuring labour productivity ― originally designed for the manufacturing sector ― do not fit the specific characteristics of knowledge work. We therefore propose a more appropriate understanding of the driving forces behind knowledge work productivity,...

Technological change and high competitiveness are essential for organisations in today’s fast-paced society. Information and knowledge assets thus need to be current and easily accessible. With implementing core knowledge processes such as identification and accumulation, msg systems ag - a...

This paper looks at the convergence of knowledge management and Enterprise 2.0 and describes the possibilities for an overarching exchange and transfer of knowledge in Enterprise 2.0. This will be underlined by the presentation of the concrete example of TSystems Multimedia Solutions GmbH (MMS),...

Although most enterprises nowadays increasingly employ digital information management in all areas, there are still many organisations - e.g. in the Public Sector - where much of formal and informal information is documented on paper only. This work lays out the concept of a set of digital...

With the emerging trend ofWeb 3.0 and the resulting huge amount of usergenerated semantically-enriched data, improved ways of knowledge visualization and human computer interaction are needed. We present several techniques of visualizing particularly spatial knowledge in largely scalable, clear...