Knowledge Sharing And Semantic Web

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to find out how semantic web plays an important role in knowledge sharing and knowledge communication in today’s world. Knowledge is one of the most precious properties of any commercial institution. In this research we see the technical aspect of knowledge sharing using the semantic web and how it helps in knowledge communication. Another purpose would be to make resources really machine understandable.

An important purpose is to know how semantic web will help organizations by making a very powerful knowledge base which employees can use to share the knowledge at any level of the organization.

Scope: Semantic web technology has got a lot of scope in any web-based systems. It is the future of web- based systems. The semantic web technology is specially used in searching of the information and information plays an important part in knowledge sharing.

Semantic web has got huge scope as it gives a systematic way to store the data which is easy to search and can be used by making use of complex queries.

More and more organizations and people working  in them can use semantic web for better knowledge sharing by making the storage of data more meaningful which will make it easy to search in the knowledge base.

Method: Semantic web helps in building a powerful knowledge base which is very important for modern technologies in any organizations. Semantic web enhances the communities of practice in an organization. In this the computer will relate the data and the pieces of information a user will need and it will be putting them with in a context and present the results to you.

The method which they use is very nice which is making the web source of the knowledge machine readable, and store the data in a meaningful manner which can be used by people to gain knowledge in an knowledge base of the organization and can be interlinked with other organizations and also within organization at any level.

Findings: Semantic web helps an organization in developing state of the art knowledge management systems in their domain. Knowledge sharing means collaborating with others to solve problems develop new ideas and implement the new semantic web technology to improve the performance. Searching the information on the web with the help of semantic web would definitely bring substantial improvement in knowledge sharing.

Social semantic web is the domain under which knowledge sharing and knowledge communication comes under and which is very useful to organizations.

Keywords: Knowledge communication, knowledge sharing, and Semantic web.

Introduction:

Introduce the topic: Semantic web is a powerful technology in knowledge sharing and communication as it would provide with results in milliseconds where the information is in millions and millions pages of data. We will see how semantic web improves the knowledge sharing and the knowledge communication in any given field.

The semantic web not only provides a platform independent media bases to exchange knowledge distributed teams but also improves he workflow management systems of an organization. The purpose of semantic web in knowledge sharing is to make a better knowledge grid for sharing and communication of knowledge in managing globally distributed knowledge resources in very effective and efficient manner. With the help of semantic web a team member can be linked with various knowledge transmission belts. A member can put knowledge in a particular place and the other team member can use it whenever he or she needs the particular knowledge.

Another important advantage of using semantic web in knowledge sharing is that the person who is looking for a particular knowledge need not waste time in looking for the knowledge as it would be accurately available in large scale in the knowledge repository. It would be stored in the knowledge base system.

The method is to store the data in a meaningful manner which will be easy to retrieve and find the information on.

The idea behind is the data will be machine readable which will make its easy to do sorting and the indexing and the search will be a lot easier with proper key words.

The data integration will help in building a very powerful knowledge base which will be an immune help to organizations to share the knowledge on a global level where ever they could be located on the whole globe.

Much faster as compared compared to any other knowledge base which will help the employees a lot in communicating of the knowledge.

Very complex queries can be addressed with the help of the semantic web which will give every level of organization be it strategic, tactical or the operational level. Moreover all the parts of the organization can communicate at any level with the help of the common knowledge pool which can be interlinked.

The semantic web is very easy to use and contribute its like as application where all the expertise knowledge can be stored which will help employees retrieve that knowledge if they face any problems.

The very powerful use of semantic web that it is strongly interconnected which makes it a perfect tool for using in industries where most of the things are interconnected by some form or other.

Type of work done: How semantic web helps an organization in knowledge sharing is basically by making the knowledge available for the employees with easy searching technologies. The web technologies which are used currently enables information exchange between any distributed teams in an organization, however they cannot  use machine understandable semantic. The work done in particular field so far would consists of Resource description framework (RDF), Ontology Inference layer (OIL). With the help of the semantic web technology the users can put knowledge, edit the existing knowledge and also get and use the knowledge in the knowledge base. Also with the help of these technologies people working at different positions require knowledge of different levels and also people working for different types of tasks require different types of knowledge which can be taken care of.

Motivation: The motivation to work on this topic is due to the huge potential semantic web has got in future when it comes to web-based technologies and the greater benefits it would provide in sharing the knowledge in an organization.

Another motivation to go for this topic was in today’s competitive market  it would be very useful to provide the employees and people working in the organization to give a web-based tool that gives them ability to collaborate their knowledge in a common pool , develop for the knowledge that experts have put their also manage and use the system for their profit and gain more productivity.

Research question: The Question which I think is weather semantic web is really helpful in knowledge sharing in the future. And if yes then to what extent will it help the organizations to communicate and share their knowledge.

Google, Wikipedia and amazon are few of the powerful organizations who are using the semantic web to their full capabilities and as this is a new technology in future I am sure it will have a value of great importance.

Overview of the report: The overview of this report would be that the web technology we know is the one where the humans design the web pages and this web pages are not readable or intelligent by machines, however semantic web would be a technology where machines can understand the information of the web content and how it will help knowledge workers to share the information and help in knowledge communication.

The general idea is to use semantic web technology to create a repository of data which will be machine or computer readable and the web services will provide with the adequate tools and support to use the data which has been stored. This will help the people a lot on knowledge sharing as there would be a huge amount of knowledge which will be stored and people can contribute to this knowledge by their expertise in their particular domain.

Body

Overview of the area: Knowledge communication and knowledge sharing is an essential part in today’s technology driven competitive organization. Knowledge is treated as a very important commodity in any organization and is constituently gaining importance.

“Knowledge sharing refers to the provision of task information and

Know-how to help others and to collaborate with others to solve problems, develop new ideas, or implement policies or procedures” (Wang &Noe, 2010, p. 117).

It is very important to share knowledge and information in organization in order to benefit the overall growth of the organization.

Semantic web is not a technology yet, however it is a very important part of future of web technologies. The whole idea of semantic web is data which we have can be understood by machines and computers. More-over it would be like the web has got a brain of its own. In semantic web the data can be processed by machines. And the question which arises is that how knowledge sharing and communication plays an part in semantic web. In other words what we can say about the semantic web is that it is a development of web technology and standards which will make machine understand the data, resources and the atomic application of the same. Semantic web can be used in a complex network of the organization.

Semantic web technology will help in making a more explicit and semantically rich knowledge representation. More and more people will be able to put their knowledge into the knowledge base which will in return help people use their this knowledge for the problems or the information they wish to find.

Semantic web can be used for business intelligence and finding expertise, it is like a huge documentation of the knowledge which can be used by organizations and enterprise to their fullest use in knowledge sharing and communication between different organizations which are a part of the enterprise. The resources will be stored on a central server and people working on different geographical areas in an enterprise can use this knowledge base to communicate their knowledge.

Semantic web is widely used in integrated enterprises for social software suites as well as how semantic web can help to integrate the various components that are used in an organization's knowledge base is very important.

Review the research papers: The way in which semantic web would work in knowledge sharing or knowledge communication in an organization would it would give better tools for the groupware or the communities of practice in an organization. Many organizations have used the groupware technology of better communication especially when the organizations are globalized. The knowledge sharing is done in an organization is done mainly because to gain the knowledge of the experts.

By sharing knowledge through semantic web employees can gain innovation and applying it to their benefit would ultimately gain competitive advantage in the organization.

One way in which semantic web helps in knowledge sharing and communication is it gives a lot of tools to index the data which makes it easy to search the knowledge in the knowledge base of an organization. Also Ontology which are the base of the knowledge storage of the modern world really takes the help of semantic web a lot.

Critique of the existing work: An interesting example which can give us an idea of how semantic web works would be when we listen to songs on YouTube or for that matter when we order anything from web be it amazon of local grocery stores we get something like “the people who ordered this also ordered this” the question is how does the site know that it has to display this items and the answer is semantic web which has got its roots in artificial intelligence and it is simply done by better  indexing of the data and which leads to better retroviral of the data. We can say that semantic web is basically a way better standard for storing the data. The database would have knowledge about the data which is also known as meta-data. The issues with the semantic web are that it would be used for a small portion of thing for traditional way of communication in an organizations which would be emails and group emails or video confer sing.

The current workflow models really does not support the knowledge level cooperation to a great extent.

Review of the tools: The internet makes a team globally distributed in an organization and communication of knowledge is considered an important part in the teams sharing the knowledge.  The tools used in semantic web application of knowledge would be the knowledge base will first look for a problem solution and if the solution is not there in the knowledge base then it would ask the team members to contribute their knowledge for finding the solution for the particular problem.

Application based: The applications of semantic web are very vast be it in multimedia sharing or the social networks. A new thing which has come is interlinking online communities which help in knowledge sharing a lot in organizations.

Semantic web can be used by organizations for connecting the database internally and externally.

Collaborate work can be enhanced through the applications of semantic web.     

Problems

Which problems researchers in this area try to solve: how semantic web really helps organizations to share knowledge and communicate is through when employees search something on the web majority of the time is wasted in looking for the specific information, and majority of the time people get irrelevant information.

Another thing which the researchers are trying to solve is weather semantic web weather semantic web can be used for different platforms. One dimension to it is weather semantic web can be used for allowing interoperability between business objects , the actions they can take and their users.

The part is called “social semantic web”which will help users to share knowledge between them.

Methods: The Methods used in semantic web are as follows. Earlier there was no standards which were present in indexing, analyzing, cataloging or for that matter even specifying the quality of the information which was stored in database of an web based knowledge system. However with the help of semantic we technologies like RDF, topic maps, ontologies and even OWL now we have some experimental things which could be used to gain maximum benefit when it comes to knowledge communication.

Another way to look at this is the semantic web is basically trying to convert the current web of unstructured data in to something which will be “web of data”. Thus the data can be used in knowledge sharing if we put it in a knowledge base which will be used by organizations in their tools like (DSS) decision support systems and (EIS) Executive support systems.

As semantic web is a web based technology and with today’s cloud computing there will be no shortage of the storage space which some critic would say is the major drawback of such knowledge base systems.

Main theories: What are the main findings, results and conclusions: The relationship between a team in an organization is a very important factor in working effectively and sharing knowledge between them is a very important especially in today’s competitive environment. In any organization especially an Internet-based on knowledge communication is done by semantic web technologies. The communication strategies in virtual teams are also done by semantic web technologies.

The method is to store the data in a meaningful manner which will be easy to retrieve and find the information on.

The idea behind is the data will be machine readable which will make its easy to do sorting and the indexing and the search will be a lot easier with proper key words.

The data integration will help in building a very powerful knowledge base which will be an immune help to organizations to share the knowledge on a global level where ever they could be located on the whole globe.

Much faster as compared  to any other knowledge base as it is a web based tool.

Findings

Are there success stories.eg applications: Recently semantic web has been used to a great extent by famous web sites like YouTube .  The Google squared uses semantic web search engines to provide the information in column and cells format. Also the recent iPhone application “siri” would use the semantic web technology in knowledge sharing as the virtual assistant will help a user to get the things done by just asking the user. The new application zemanta is used for blogging which has used the semantic web to a large extend.

Results

Discussion/ Conclusions

Semantic web is a very helpful and important future generation technology which will be very useful in knowledge sharing and knowledge communication. The semantic web will build more intelligent databases which will be put in knowledge based systems and thus help organizations to make more accurate and precise decisions for their workers. People who will be using this knowledge based systems will have more power to take more precise and fast decisions as the data and the information will be stored in more precise manner.

Semantic web is a web based knowledge sharing tool which is of great importance for current competitive organizations to build a powerful knowledge base.