Knowledge networks in the age of the Semantic Web

Abstract

The Web has become the major medium for various communities to share their knowledge. To this end, it provides an optimal environment for knowledge networks. The web offers global connectivity that is virtually instantaneous, and whose resources and documents can easily be indexed for easy searching. In the coupled realms of biomedical research and healthcare, this has become especially important where today many thousands of communities already exist that connect across academia, hospitals and industry. These communities also rely on several forms of knowledge assets, including publications, experimental data, domain-specific vocabularies and policies. Web-based communities will be one of the earlier beneficiaries of the emerging Semantic Web. With the new standards and technologies of the Semantic Web, effective utilization of knowledge networks will expand profoundly, fostering new levels of innovation and knowledge.

Health information professionals and the Semantic Web: a symbiotic relationship?

“…They simplify and standardize the definition of concepts, allowing widespread access not only to the physical form of information (journal articles, datasets) but also to something less tangible: an informed understanding of the concepts contained in those physical representations. The capability of the Semantic Web to compile information from diverse sources also allows researchers to immediately and collaboratively annotate scientific concepts based on their insights, newly proposed hypotheses, or the disproof of a theory [3]. Successful implementation of a biomedical Semantic Web would encourage the active participation of researchers in cross-disciplinary KT.…”

“…This set of standardized and comprehensive metadata is akin to a sort of universally applied controlled vocabulary that would make applications interoperable. Ideally, this would enable simultaneous and instantaneous querying of data from virtually any source on the Web [3]. Ultimately, the Semantic Web will make the meaning of Web content machine-accessible using formal rules to express the meaning of data and the relationships between concepts [4].…”

Gestão do conhecimento como estratégia de desenvolvimento econômico e regional

“…A capacidade resultante do conhecimento individual e coletivo não é um compêndio de fatos compilados, mas o potencial para ações decisivas e influentes que servem a uma comunidade maior ou necessidade organizacional (NEUMANN; PRUSAK, 2007). Para Gallon, Reina e Ensslin (2011), a atividade de gestão do conhecimento é essencial para a manutenção da competitividade, quanto traduzida em termos de impactos sociais, econômicos e de inovação.…”

“…De acordo com Neumann e Prusak (2007), embora muitas vezes incompreendido, informação não é conhecimento. Para os autores, "a informação se torna conhecimento quando é absorvida e socializada por um indivíduo ou grupo.…”

“…O processo para que o conhecimento proporcione um significado prático da informação decorre do fato de que a informação se torne parte da base de conhecimentos de um indivíduo (NEUMANN;PRUSAK, 2007). A inovação ocorre quando a informação se torna conhecimento.…”