KNOWLEDGE PORTAL

definition

A type of portal that purposely supports and stimulates knowledge transfer, knowledge storage and retrieval, knowledge creation, knowledge integration, and knowledge application by providing access to relevant knowledge artifacts.

Functionalities

Repository focused

Network focused

Search

Applications and Services

Repository Access

Personalization and Role Management

Unified Interface

Collaboration and Communication Tools

Component

Knowledge Organization Systems

simple component

Registers

Categorizations

challenges for deployment

Favorable Organizational Culture

Knowledge Integration

Sufficient Contribution

Framework for Literature Review

Analysis

Design

Planning

Implementation

focuses on justification for
building a knowledge portal

identify specialized needs

identify information access in underlying systems

need for integration between multiple sources

understand business process

examines current situation of knowledge sharing

describe system functions

identify stakeholders

semantic web and ontology technique

artificial intelligent techniques

datamining technique

security issues

Portlets

criteria for successful
implementations

executive level support

linking knowledge and business processes,

motivation

developing information sharing culture, technical design

social context

challenges

filtering documents

the impact of an improved portal

the potential use of existing methodologies

Virtual workplaces that enable knowledge sharing among different categories of
end-users and can be customized to meet the individual’s needs.