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Knowledge Management with
Semantic MediaWiki and SharePoint
Michael Erdmann
February 7, 2014
Karlsruhe, Germany
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About DIQA GmbH
DIQA is an independent software vendor of knowledge management tools for ECM portals.
Our vision:
We provide our customers with services and products that turn their ECM portals into smart portals by introducing semantic web technologies. Smart portals let end-users better find, organize, process, control and govern unstructured content.
Founded: May 2012
Team: 3 employees
Location: Germany, Karlsruhe
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Agenda
• Goals of KM
• Use Case1: Semantic MediaWiki
• The notion of Information Architecture
• Use Case 2: SharePoint
• Metadata/Taxonomies in SharePoint
• Comparison
• Conclusion
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Knowledge Work
• Knowledge workers are workers whose main
capital is knowledge, i.e. who "think for a living", e.g. software engineers, doctors,
architects, engineers, scientists.
• They conduct "non-routine" problem solving that requires a combination of convergent,
divergent, and creative thinking.
• Other work processes can also contain knowledge work, e.g.
• Risk assessment when selling an insurance policy
• Purchasing a complex electronic device
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Goals of KM
• Ensure effectively use of knowledge
• Share and reuse knowledge
• Make knowledge of individuals available
for the organization
• Ensure availability of knowledge over time
and independent of location
• Embed knowledge in work processes
“Make the right knowledge available, when it is
needed, where it is needed to whoever needs it.”
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The KM Cycle
Socialization consists of sharing knowledge through social interactions, e.g. master
and apprentice.
The process of externalization gives a visible form to tacit knowledge. It can
be defined as "a quintessential
knowledge creation process in that
tacit knowledge becomes explicit,
taking the shapes of metaphors,
analogies, concepts, hypotheses, or
models“.
Combination is the process of recombining/re-organizing discrete
pieces of explicit knowledge into a
new form.
Internalization, occurs through diffusing and embedding newly acquired and
consolidated knowledge into own
mental model, "learning by doing".
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Agenda
• Goals of KM
• Use Case1: Semantic MediaWiki
• The notion of Information Architecture
• Use Case 2: SharePoint
• Metadata/Taxonomies in SharePoint
• Comparison
• Conclusion
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What is Semantic Media Wiki (SMW)?
It’s a content management system for
• Richly formatted hypertext documents
• Structured data
It’s based on the “Wiki Way”:
• User-governed
• Collaborative
• Easy to use
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Semantic MediaWiki: Data model
Think of SMW data in a graphical way
(knowledge graph):
has capital
has population
has mayor has chancellor
Germany Berlin
Klaus Wowereit Angela Merkel
3,515,473
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Why is Semantic MediaWiki good for KM?
• Can handle text, images and data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured content)
• Collaborative platform • Everyone can contribute, page history, authorship,
…
• Automatic sharing of wiki pages • Web- based, one-data store, accessible from
anywhere
• Templates and forms define structure • Knowledge graph
• Automatic lists via queries
• Reuse of knowledge in different contexts
• Faceted search enables interactive navigation
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Use Case: SMW for Engineering SME
• What knowledge is contained in the wiki? • Administrative
• Technical
• test protocols (aligned with the test database)
• Sales
• Products
• Quality Management handbook
• Processes, how-to’s
• Who uses it? • 5-6 knowledge providers
• Essentially all employees use the wiki (consumes knowledge)
• Staff from the production line shares one account
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SMW Demo
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Use Case: SMW for Engineering SME
• Why does the company use SMW? • Right mix of structure and freedom
• Right mix of data and free-form text
• No license costs
• Active developer community
• Easy (setup and )administration
• Particularities • Documents
• No documents are shared via the wiki, due to privacy concerns.
• Documents are stored on a file share with appropriate user management (ActiveDirecory).
• Links to documents in the wiki
• Champion
• CEO is a strong proponent and agent for Knowledge Management with SMW
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Agenda
• Goals of KM
• Use Case1: Semantic MediaWiki
• The notion of Information Architecture
• Use Case 2: SharePoint
• Metadata/Taxonomies in SharePoint
• Comparison
• Conclusion
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Information Architecture
• Information architecture is the structural
design of shared information environments (e.g. websites, intranets, online communities,
content management system), a blueprint
upon which all other aspects are built – form, function, metaphor, navigation and interface,
interaction, and visual design
• including
• Data model or concept of information
• Users model and user roles
• Activities and workflows
• Policies and governance guidelines
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Information Architecture Methodology
https://www.earley.com/
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Translating Concepts into Design Elements
• Start with content
• Develop the taxonomy
• Create metadata fields • Assemble into content types
• Align personas with use cases
• Create site map based on use cases • Develop wireframes from site maps
• Create document libraries and navigation based on site maps and wireframes
https://www.earley.com/
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Agenda
• Goals of KM
• Use Case1: Semantic MediaWiki
• The notion of Information Architecture
• Use Case 2: SharePoint
• Metadata/Taxonomies in SharePoint
• Comparison
• Conclusion
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Microsoft SharePoint
What is it?
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SharePoint vs. ECM
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Microsoft SharePoint
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SharePoint Basics
SharePoint content is organized in the following way (indentation represent “contains” relationship)
• Web application • Site Collection
• Web Site
• Page
• Text,
• Image
• Web part
• List
• Item
• Library
• Document
• Web site
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Web Site Collection: Company Intranet
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SharePoint Basics
SharePoint content is organized in the following way (indentation represent “contains” relationship)
• Web application • Site Collection
• Web Site
• Page
• Text,
• Image
• Web part
• List
• Item
• Library
• Document
• Web site
Web Sites come in many
flavors / templates. They define menus,
functionality and page
structures, e.g.
• MySite • Projects
• DiscussionBoard
• SearchCenter
• PeopleSearch
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Web Site: Department Homepage
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Web Site: A Project Site
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Web Site: Discussion Board
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SharePoint Basics
SharePoint content is organized in the following way (indentation represent “contains” relationship)
• Web application • Site Collection
• Web Site
• Page
• Text,
• Image
• Web part
• List
• Item
• Library
• Document
• Web site
Three diff. kinds of pages:
• Web Part page (a number of predefined
layouts)
• Wiki page (has "edit"-
button, can contain Web Parts)
• System page (cannot
be edited via browser)
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SharePoint Basics
SharePoint content is organized in the following way (indentation represent “contains” relationship)
• Web application • Site Collection
• Web Site
• Page
• Text,
• Image
• Web part
• List
• Item
• Library
• Document
• Web site
Widget on pages,
allowing for server-side processing
• Vizualizations of
dynamic content
• Views on lists • User Input
• SearchBox
• Many more
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SharePoint Basics
SharePoint content is organized in the following way (indentation represent “contains” relationship)
• Web application • Site Collection
• Web Site
• Page
• Text,
• Image
• Web part
• List
• Item
• Library
• Document
• Web site
Lists are a key feature of
SharePoint. They enable teams to gather, track,
and share information.
• Structured
• Content types • Column definitions
• MetaData • Views
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List … of Tasks
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SharePoint Basics
SharePoint content is organized in the following way (indentation represent “contains” relationship)
• Web application • Site Collection
• Web Site
• Page
• Text,
• Image
• Web part
• List
• Item
• Library
• Document
• Web site
Libraries are special lists
that can also hold documents (Word, Excel,
PDF, …).
• DMS features
• Check-in/check-out • View and edit files
either in the browser or
in Office
• Versioning
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Library for Digital Assets
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SharePoint Basics
• Although sites are separated, they can
share information
• E.g. Search Sites
• Every user can have his/her own Site
• MySite
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Web Site: MySite
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Web Site: MySite
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Web Site: People Directory
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Search Site
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Search Site (for People)
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Agenda
• Goals of KM
• Use Case1: Semantic MediaWiki
• The notion of Information Architecture
• Use Case 2: SharePoint
• Metadata/Taxonomies in SharePoint
• Comparison
• Conclusion
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Findability
• Any KM(-like) system strives to create views of information in the context of work processes • content/document management applications
• search tools
• workflow applications
• customer relationship management systems
• …
• Requires, a common language in which to: • Describe
• Communicate
• Translate information between applications and between user audiences
terminology, taxonomy, ontology, metadata
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Taxonomy in SharePoint
• TermStore
• Hierarchy of terms (with synonyms)
• Managed Metadata columns used for:
• Content enrichment
• Workflow s
• Managing information lifecycle
• Sorting, filtering and grouping documents
and/or list items
• Faceted search
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DIQA’s extensions to SharePoint
DIQA products for SharePoint
• GRASP – Graphs for SharePoint • GRASP-SemanticWeb
• SPARQL-WebPart
• BCD-Connector for SPARQL-Endpoints
• GRASP-TermManager
• SKOS import/export
• Poly hierarchies
• Relations between Terms
• SemanticSearch WebParts • Suggest terms in the SearchBox WebPart
• Display term tree in Refiner WebPart
• Find documents for related tems
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Web Part Page with SPARQL WebPart
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TermBrowser with Polyhierarchy
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Search Page with TermTreeRefiner
and MatchingTerms Web Parts
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Challenge: Content Classification
• People love the power that comes from
metadata, but not if they actually have to
touch the metadata. We want the assets found, reports built, and processes
automated, but only if we don’t have to
be the individuals actually making it
possible.
https://www.earley.com/
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Content Classification
• Auto-Tagging
• Keyword/term based
• IE
• Context-based
• Posted to which site or library
• Created in which workflow
• Uploaded by which user/role
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Agenda
• Goals of KM
• Use Case1: Semantic MediaWiki
• The notion of Information Architecture
• Use Case 2: SharePoint
• Metadata/Taxonomies in SharePoint
• Comparison
• Conclusions
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Comparison of SMW and SharePoint
• Both support explicit metadata
• SMW much more agile
• open source vs. closed source
• Community development vs. proprietary
• Completely open vs. elaborate user rights
management
• Wiki markup vs. MS Office integration
• Essentially free vs. substantial investment
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Conclusions
• There are no off-the-shelf KM systems • Every client is different
• Platforms like SMW or SharePoint are good starting points
• Knowledge Management is a challenge nonetheless • IT infrastructure is only one dimension
• Organizational culture is even more important
• Think big, start small!
• A little semantics can go a long way. • Metadata creation should be easy, seamless,
automatic
Thank you!
Questions, Discussion, …?
www.diqa-pm.com
DIQA Projektmanagement GmbH
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76227 Karlsruhe
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Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Erdmann, Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Daniel Hansch
erdmann@diqa-pm.com
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