Managing Knowledge in Organizational Memory Using Topics Maps1

@article{Miller2008ManagingKI,
  title={Managing Knowledge in Organizational Memory Using Topics Maps1},
  author={Leslie L. Miller and Sree Nilakanta and Yunan Song and Lei Zhu and Ming Hua},
  journal={Int. J. Knowl. Manag.},
  year={2008},
  volume={4},
  pages={17-28}
}
Organizational memories play a significant role in knowledge management, but several challenges confront their use. Artifacts of OM are many and varied. Access and use of the stored artifact are influenced by the user’s understanding of these information objects as well as their context. Theories of distributed cognition and the notion of community of practice are used to develop a model of the knowledge management system. In the present work we look at a model for managing organizational… 
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