A method for enterprise knowledge map construction based on social classification

Abstract

Knowledge map is an important and effective instrument of corporate knowledge management. A great number of unordered knowledge resources in the enterprises bring about difficulties to the knowledge map construction. This paper proposes an effective method based on social classification to organize the enterprise knowledge resources and to construct the knowledge map further. According to the characteristics of knowledge usage in the enterprise, the enterprise knowledge map is defined as a domaincentered system to display knowledge and their relationships. By virtue of the collaborative nature of social classification, the proposed method collects individual knowledge tagging data and selects some important topics from tags to form a domain knowledge map. Then topics in different domains are related to each other by similarity and the enterprise knowledge map is constructed. At last, a prototype knowledge map system, which is being implemented for an enterprise, is presented.