A new visualization-oriented knowledge service platform

Abstract

With the rapid growth of knowledge resources and increasing individual demands of users, the problem of how to spend less effort finding knowledge they need has been becoming more and more important. The visualization-oriented knowledge service platform is presented, which includes knowledge acquisition, knowledge categories, knowledge processing, knowledge storage and knowledge visualization. The platform aims to further transfer insights, experiences, attitudes, values, expectations, perspectives, opinions, and predictions by using various complementary visualizations. That is, by using knowledge mapping techniques a large and complex set of knowledge resources can be assimilated and navigated more easily. A prototype system of visual knowledge service has been implemented and applied to the massive knowledge organization, management and service for education. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.