Corporate memory through cooperative creation of knowledge bases and hyper-documents

Jérôme Euzenat (1)

1 SHERPA - Object Knowledge Bases

The Co4 system is dedicated to the representation of formal knowledge in an object and task based manner. It is fully interleaved with hyper-documents and thus provides integration of formal and informal knowledge. Moreover, consensus about the content of the knowledge bases is enforced with the help of a protocol for integrating knowledge through several levels of consensual knowledge bases. Co4 is presented here as addressing three claims about corporate memory: (1) it must be formalised to the greatest possible extent so that its semantics is clear and its manipulation can be automated; (2) it cannot be totally formalised and thus formal and informal knowledge must be organised such that they refer to each other; (3) in order to be useful, it must be accepted by the people involved (providers and users) and thus must be non contradictory and consensual.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Jérôme Euzenat. Corporate memory through cooperative creation of knowledge bases and hyper-documents. 10th workshop on knowledge acquisition (KAW), Nov 1996, Banff, Canada. pp.(36)1-18. ⟨hal-01401163⟩