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CPE/CSC 581 Computer Support for Knowledge Management Spring 2009
Points 25
Deadline May 26

CPE/CSC 581-S09 Computer Support for Knowledge Management Assignment 4: Knowledge Integration

A major challenge in knowledge management is the integration of different bodies of knowledge from disparate sources in varying formats, and possibly with incompatible tools. In this assignment, you need to integrate multiple individual bodies of knowledge, signifcantly enhance one by merging in another. The critical aspect here is to take multiple existing repositories of knowledge and bring them together. If there is a good mathc, you can collaborate with one or more of your classmates.

Here is a list of methods and tools that have been used for similar purposes:

This assignment can be performed individually or in small teams. After selecting your team mates, you need to integrate that you developped individually. The integration the different bodies of knowledge needs to be done at two different levels. At the conceptual level, the knowledge entities contained in your body of knowledge (e.g. the concepts, objects, and relationships) need to be consolidated into one single body of knowledge. This may involve activities like identifying an abstract concept that is common to both, eliminating duplicate entries, and establishing relationships between related entries. At the implementation level, you need to identify a common format that is compatible with the tools that you used for the individual efforts. You can convert one body of knowledge into the tool that the other uses, or choose a representation that is supported by both tools. In the worst case, you may have to recreate one of the bodies, or manually insert the respective entries into the other.

Grading Guidelines

This paper contributes up to 25 points to the overall assignments score. The score will be determined by the following criteria:

In this assignment, you get a higher score for integrating a larger number of different bodies of knowledge. An appropriate scoring function for this aspect will be discussed in class.

Submission

The deadline for this assignment is two weeks after the distribution. It should be submitted via the Blackboard wiki. You should format your document as an XML or HTML file so that it can be used in a larger context, and viewed easily from within BlackBoard.

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