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Interoperability is key to sustainable knowledge management |
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Monday, 27 April 2009 11:40 |
Sustainable Knowledge Management Systems must support interoperability, in particular, organisational interoperability. Interoperability is defined in this context as 'the ability to function across a wide range of projects'.
Projects change and people change, a system cannot be designed to rely on such constraints. The way to do this is by ensuring that the underlying data must be consistent, and it must be linked. We need to make sure that all of the analysis is consistent in terms of time, unit, source, assumptions etc. Or if it is not consistent, then the system must be flexible enough to make appropriate allowances for it. To allow for knowledge reuse, we need to ensure that our data is linked correctly so that a single resource can be reused in different ways across the project and across multiple projects.
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