Knowledge preservation framework for university's intellectual output

Abstract

Intellectual Output (IO) of a university is often neglected by society whereas it actually possesses a great capacity of university's knowledge produced by researchers. Knowledge preservation is important for community to be able to access, utilize and improve the knowledge at the same time. Thus, Institutional Repository (IR) of an institution is essential to ensure the knowledge is stored and accessible at anytime. There is no specific technique to preserve knowledge, but with the existence of ontological and taxonomy model can help in modeling the knowledge. The scope of IO in this paper is University's IO gained by UiTM Research Innovation Business Unit (RIBU). Taxonomy presented in this paper is derived from RIBU's intellectual output which is expected to help the search and retrieval mechanism for an IR. © 2013 Springer International Publishing.