Re: A Taxonomy for Knowledge Management

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Posted by zeoli
2004-10-16 19:00:35

Stephen,

I think I can buy into your taxonomy. Very interesting.

One use that you did not mention, perhaps intentionally, is the function of actually assembling the pieces you’ve been collecting and organizing for a specific project, and adding the cohesive text that turns it into a narrative… i.e. actually writing the piece. Most of us now probably export our pieces into a word processor for that stage because few, if any, of these programs are good at creating the final text (and I don’t mean the formatting, which is another function altogether). To me, a “perfect” outliner would also be able to serve this function. Not to beat a dead horse, but I found that GrandView provided the tools for creating the entire work, from data collection to final composition.

The problem with the two pane outliners is that each piece of material is treated as a kernel or discrete piece of data, associated with the pieces around them, but not actually of those pieces. That’s why I think a single pane outliner like GrandView provides the best writing environment. NoteMap doesn’t deliver because it doesn’t provide the cataloging/categorizing/identifying of those kernels the way ADM, Zoot, etc. do. That cataloging function is necessary, especially on big projects with lots of data, for helping the writer to manage all the information effectively. If NoteMap would add meta-data functions for each of the notes, then it would go a long way toward bridging that gap… assuming, of course, that one could sort, search and filter on the meta-data fields.

Would you agree with this, or do you have another perspective?

Again, thanks for providing the taxonomy.

Steve Z.

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