| |  | Schwarz, Sven | A Context Model for Personal Knowledge Management Applications read moreAbstract: In the research project EPOS1 we build a pro-active, context-sensitive support system to aid the user with his knowledge work, which is mostly about searching, reading, creating, and archiving of documents. In order to avoid distracting the user, the context gathering is realized by installable user observation plugins for standard applications such as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
The main part of this paper is about the definition of a context model for the personal knowledge management domain. The context model incorporates only contextual elements relevant to satisfy the knowledge worker’s potential information need. It stores only information items known to the user (such as links to his own documents, folders, ), as well as, shared ontologies to assure an understanding of the context.
The context is modeled in and can be retrieved by context-aware applications from the context support system via an XML-RPC call.
| 2006 |
| | | Völkel, Max | Semantic Wikis for Personal Knowledge Management read moreAbstract: Wikis are becoming popular knowledge management tools. Analysing knowledge management requirements, we observe that wikis do not fully support structured search and knowledge reuse. We show how Semantic wikis address the requirements and present a general architecture. We introduce our SemperWiki prototype which offers advanced information access and knowledge reuse. | 2006 |
| | | Efimova, Lilia | Understanding personal knowledge management: A weblog case read moreAbstract: Much of knowledge management research and practice is focused on an organisational level; interventions and systems are designed and implemented without much thinking of how they would match the practices and daily routines of individual knowledge workers. Personal knowledge management is an approach that complements organisational KM by focusing on ways to support productivity of an individual knowledge worker. The aim of this paper is to propose a personal knowledge management framework by integrating insights from literature on knowledge work and knowledge worker activities with real-life examples of the use of weblogs for professional purposes: as personal knowledge repositories, learning journals or networking instruments. We draw upon the results of a weblog adoption study to propose a personal knowledge management framework that maps a knowledge worker's activities across three dimensions: individual, communities & networks, and ideas. We then discuss its implications for research and practice. | 2005 |
| | | Frand, Jason | Personal Knowledge Management: A Strategy for Controlling Information Overload read moreAbstract: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) was developed as a workshop for students in MBA programs at The Anderson School at UCLA. The Anderson School's MBA programs present significant challenges to incoming students: a heavy workload, limited time, extensive and diverse informational resources, and an advanced technological environment that includes a laptop requirement for each entering student. The workshop aimed to teach students practical methods for managing their work and school-related activities and meeting the challenges of a rigorous academic environment. Feedback and input from professionals helped further develop and refine the PKM approach to meet the needs of audiences both inside and outside the academic environment.
PKM is a strategy for managing your information in our thethis information intense environment of todayís society where information overload is an intrinsic problem. Implementing this strategy will reduces the negative effects of information overload, while facilitating decision-making, problem solving and knowledge acquisition.
(endnote: For the purposes of this paper, we will consider data, information, knowledge and wisdom as different. Let's assume we begin with data, add context to get information, add understanding to get knowledge, and add judgement (values) to get wisdom.)
| 2002 |
| | | Frand, Jason | Personal Knowledge Management : Who, What, Why, When, Where, How? read moreAbstract: Our students, who will spend most of their working lives in the 21st century, will need to see the computer and related technologies as an extension of themselves, as a tool as important as the pencil or quill pen was for the last several hundred years. Fifteen years ago, few people knew what a personal computer was. Now personal computers are ubiquitous. With the proliferation of personal computers and linked computer networks, there has been an increase in the amount of information produced, as well as new avenues of finding the information. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) attempts to utilize the computer to help the individual manage the information explosion in a meaningful way.
What is personal knowledge management? It’s a system designed by individuals for their own personal use. Knowledge management has been described by Davenport and Prusak as a systematic attempt to create, gather, distribute, and use knowledge. (a) Lethbridge characterizes it as the process of acquiring, representing, storing and manipulating the categorizations, characterizations and definitions of both things and their relationship. (b) PKM, as conceived at the Anderson School, is a conceptual framework to organize and integrate information that we, as individuals, feel is important so that it becomes part of our personal knowledge base. It provides a strategy for transforming what might be random pieces of information into something that can be systematically applied and that expands our personal knowledge.
| 1999 |
| | | AJ, Mento | Mind mapping in executive education: applications and outcomes read moreAbstract: Developed by Tony Buzan in 1970, mind mapping is a revolutionary system for capturing ideas and insights horizontally on a sheet of paper. This paper illustrates the technique of mind mapping, and highlights its specific applications in a variety of contexts based on our work in executive education and in management development consulting. Positive outcomes of the approach are described as well as reactions of executive students to mind mapping. We conclude with a rationale of why we believe mind mapping works with executives. | 1999 |
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