Description of Knowledge Management and Learning Technologies Track

 

Knowledge Management and Learning involve a variety of areas such as: policy, content, workflow, discovery, collaboration, history/future, user-tailoring, and so on.  These areas may involve technology (e.g., technology to support policy) or may be independent of technology (e.g., policy to support organizational, institutional, or societal goals).  And these areas are used to improve others (e.g., knowledge management may be used by an institution to help workers) and to help oneself (e.g., learners may engage in self-directed learning; incorporation of knowledge management techniques might be considered "institutional self-improvevment").

 

The practitioners use information in various ways.  An obvious question is: How can one use information technology to be support the needs of the user, business, organization, institution, etc., i.e., the needs of the stakeholder?  For knowledge management and learning technologies, a common theme is: how does the stakeholder address the structural, indexing, storage, retrieval, etc. methods as the volume of information grows?  In other words, for these stakeholders, the use of various kinds of "metadata" is integral to the problem and solution of scaling up the system to a large number of participants.

 

This track explores how "metadata" is a critical business and technical design issue for these stakeholders scaling problems/solutions.  In addition, presentations will show how the incorporation of "metadata technologies" has brought other benefits, such as internationalization and localization, improvements in collaboration and consensus-building, and low cost/higher quality of information distribution.

 

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