Questions tagged [knowledge-management]

Knowledge Management treats information as an asset, often in a commercial and organizational context.

Knowledge Management treats information as an asset, and seeks to identify, capture, evaluate, retrieve, share and generally make use of that asset. Knowledge Management is typically (though not necessarily) viewed in a commercial and organizational context. It prompts disciplined inquiry into documents, procedures, databases, and personal human expertise, experience and perception.

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Anybody knows any knowledge base open source?

I want to build a web-based knowledge base system for our call center. To save some development time, I am looking for a open source. Does anybody know any good one out there?
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A step-up from TiddlyWiki that is still 100% portable?

TiddlyWiki is a great idea, brilliantly implemented. I'm using it as a portable personal "knowledge manager," and these are the prize virtues: It travels on my USB flash memory stick and runs on any computer, regardless of operating system No…
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How to maintain an emacs-based knowledge base?

I've been using org-mode for a little while, I've kept it really simple for now, with only two files : one to act as an inbox, with remember-mode another where I stick just about anything that's been processed from the inbox This is great for…
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What is the purpose of SWRL rules?

Can anybody explain the purpose of SWRL rules. As far as I have understood, SWRL rules are same as stored procedures in SQL. I have made a few rules, but don't know how to utilize them in my application through query. I don't know whether I am…
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Which Wiki text syntax or Markdown to use?

Working on my personal knowledge base... I want to format my documents, even on local hard disk in wiki syntax. Sometimes I would upload them to a (corporate) wiki, sometimes I would download them from there. Planned are some tools to support this…
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How do you start Knowledge Transfer?

Do you use a formal event to get people talking in your IT department? Like a monthly meetup in a social place, a internal wiki/chat space or just a regular "information market" with some presentations about technology or projects made by your staff…
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Tracking Useful Information

What do the clever programmers here do to keep track of handy programming tricks and useful information they pick up over their many years of experience? Things like useful compiler arguments, IDE short-cuts, clever code snippets, etc. I sometimes…
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What is the difference between naive and semi naive evaluation?

I have been trying to implement an algorithm for the semi naive evaluation of a datalog program but couldn't get a straightforward answer anywhere that explains the difference in simple words. According to my understanding naive is a bottom up…
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simple document/knowledge management system, based on django

I'm looking for a simple document management system (preferably based on django). Doing a quick internet research I found these two apps: http://github.com/philippbosch/django-dms/tree/master/documents/ http://code.google.com/p/django-documents/ Has…
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What are the limits to expressability of RDF / OWL / etc

So Im learning about RDF and OWL and "knowledge representation" in general. 1) What are the limits of RDF or OWL formats? Are there concepts that can't be expressed in RDF? But that can be expressed in OWL? Or the other way around. Are there…
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Twitter for work updates

If you are sending work/progress reports to the project lead on a daily or weekly basis, I wondered if you would consider using Twitter or similar services for these updates. Say if you're working remotely or with a distributed team and the project…
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How do you store all the things which you've learnt and information you want to keep?

Granted knowledge is best retained when put into practice, but as programmers I'm sure there's just too much information. Besides annotating your books, what other methods do you use for your own personal knowledge-base so you can have an easily…
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Snippets for productivity - collect good code

I was wondering whether there're recommendable sites, that host collections of good and useful code-snippets. Searching stackoverflow, to be honest, sometimes is priceless. - But if you know sites like commandlinefu (just for Shell stuff), you may…
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What are the efficient ways to take "programmer" notes?

I run many times into an issue where someone asked me about a bug or a feature I worked on. And it literally takes me a long time to recall it, usually by looking at Bugzila as well as my CVS reports. So I am trying to find a good way to take notes…
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Which are the advantages of splitting the developer's time between two projects?

I have two projects, with identical priorities and work hours demand, and a single developer. Two possible approaches: Deliver one project first. Split the developer's time and deliver both later. I can't see any reason why people would choose the…
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