Knowledge Management & Delivery - Monday 26th July

Information is sometimes said to be our most valuable asset, but information without context, meaning, or validation is useless. Knowledge is information that we can use, but to apply it we need to organise it and provide it in the right place at the right time. The management and delivery of knowledge are key areas where XML can contribute significant benefits because it is robust, provable, and reprocessable, and because software to take advantage of these features is already available. This seminar focuses on how knowledge can be represented, managed and delivered using XML technology.

Knowledge Management itself is a business practice, a planned process for generating business value from intellectual assets. In order for XML to assist this process, many components need to be in place, including a framework for representing the information as knowledge, tools for handling management and delivery, methods for identifying and locating information and deciding if it can be turned into knowledge or not, and controls for managing the scalability.

Topics covered:

• Frameworks for representing the information as knowledge - XML markup, DTDs, Schemas, and how they can improve the representation of information without distorting it.
• Tools for handling management and delivery - software for applying markup, for extracting information, checking integrity, organising, transforming, and presenting it for consumption.
• Methods for identifying and locating information, making it knowledge, and keeping it current - the use of vocabularies, metadata, and ontologies; Topic Maps, OWL, RDF, and the Semantic Web.
• Putting knowledge to work using XML - managing large-scale collections of knowledge.

Cost:
The cost of this one day seminar is £195 + VAT, or you can select the Full XML Summer School Package for £995 + VAT and attend all seminars of your choice.

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