Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing

Telecon in a series from the Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS) - Project

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Abstract from Website

How does the way in which organizations organize and share their knowledge affect the way in which people have conversations and drive dialogue? Traditionally, architects design buildings that create spaces for conversation--meeting rooms, offices, conference centers. This session explores how these methods have been translated into the information environment and how community physical spaces can be viewed, to understand how knowledge flows within a city. Understanding how that information space is created in an organization through ontologies and taxonomies that drive people in certain directions for decision making and discussion is the focus of another topic. Bringing these two ideas together into the idea of creating virtual physical spaces that help citizens engage with government, participate in a rocket launch, and support the mission of NASA will be explored in looking at NASA's experience in the Second Life virtual world ("SL") over the last two years.