Methods and techniques for knowledge management: What has knowledge engineering to offer?

Abstract

Knowledge engineering has been around for more than a decade, and has achieved some results that will be useful for knowledge management. This paper tries to link both areas and show how the latter can benefit from the achievements of the former. First an overview is given of the major 'assets' realized by knowledge engineering. Next it is investigated how requirements from knowledge management could be met by reusing modeling results and ontologies. Two case studies are presented to show how both disciplines could work together to improve the knowledge households of museums. The paper concludes with some observations on the future relation between knowledge engineering and knowledge management. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.