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.