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- Identities And Names In Knowledge Management
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Description
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This paper presents a concise investigation
and classification of the nature of identities and the
role of names in knowledge management solutions.
Identities and names, while being the very foundation
upon which knowledge management solutions are built are
also the least clearly explained and understood. This
leads to a conflicting and often inconsistent use of
identity and naming in any given solution. As we move
towards integrated knowledge management solutions,
identity has an even greater role to play in providing
consistency and forming bridges between knowledge
models. We begin this paper with a study of the
different aspects of identity including 'thing
identity', 'The Scope and Granularity of
things to be identified', 'Assigning meaning
and Published Identity', 'Identity Assignment
and Resolution' and 'Identity Structure'.
The next section introduces the idea of names and
illustrates how they are different from identities.
Throughout this paper we provide syntactic examples of
the ideas discussed using several standards, including
RDF and TopicMaps. We conclude this paper with a
discussion about how identity and names could evolve and
what future role they may expect to play in knowledge
management solutions.
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