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> So, there are two optional ways. Either you try to use more unstructured
> ways of representing knowledge (free-text, Hyper-text), that can be added.
> This would probably result in a rather chaotic structure (Example: WWW).
I believe that web structures and methods are about the best way of
representing corporate knowledge. Chaotic cuts both ways: the structures
in a web are emergent, not predefined. For that reason they can evolve
freely in the ongoing life of the corporation. Standard relational
database technologies critically depend on predefined schema and formally
defined logical relations.
Secondly, in a web structure any single fact (i.e. document) can appear
in as many different contexts as necessary, without limit.
A continuously evolving corporate web, in fact, _is_ the corporate
thought process as well as memory.
Regards
jamzen@world.std.com
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