Knowledge management

In certain companies, organizations, administrations, the knowledge management is the object of an inventory, a structuring and specific reformat treatments.

In this case there is generally a " nomenclature of knowledge " with entries comprising a name and a description (one to several lines).
Each entry of this " nomenclature " is a pointer on one or more " object(s) of knowledge " which can be:
- a project, a realization...
- a document (minutes of meeting, declaration of nonconformity...)
- a procedure
- an image
- a film
- an address URL...
In this case, this " nomenclature of knowledge " can be regarded as a registry and all the services applying to the dictionaries or registries are applicable. (cf Dictionaries and registries)

All knowledge in textual form is "integrated" in the BSR semantic tool without preliminary work of reformat or structuring or summary writing.
The functionalities of analysis, comparison, extraction, multilingual interrogation... of the tool can be used.

starting from a target tree structure (or a model)
proposal for a classification of the whole of the texts of the base of knowledge in this tree structure or this model.

Mapping of knowledge bases
- For each desired topic (expressed by words or a sentence), list of the texts of the various knowledge bases consulted (with the indication of the paragraph and the words close semantically to the required topic).
- Of course certain topics can not have any correspondence in the consulted knowledge bases.

The accesses are generally done by:
- key word (in the language of the base of knowledge)
- and/or advance in a tree structure or a model (family, under family or class, attribute...)
A complete alternative (or simply a complementary possibility) is the interrogation in " English or French natural language "
- the user expresses his research by words or by a sentence, the BSR semantic tool indicates the texts " close " to the question
  - not simply texts having the same character strings
  - but also texts comprising of the elements having the same significance or a close significance (classified by descending order with the indication of the paragraph and the words close semantically to the question)
- the question can be put in a language different that that from the knowledge bases (in French for English bases or English to question French bases)

Use of the BSR semantic tool for the creation or the modification of entries:
- to avoid the duplications (to keep the more " interesting " text)
- to remove the obsolete texts (example of the procedures, security instructions...)
- proposal for a positioning of the new text (or the modified text) in the tree structure or the model if they exist
- mapping of the new text with external knowledge bases...
The BSR semantic tool allows also to trace the evolutions of knowledge on a given subject.
The use of the BSR semantic tool for the knowledge management avoids the heavy work of structuring and reprocessing of the information which is necessary in a " traditional management " of knowledge bases. These treatments are made reluctantly by the people " creating the knowledge " and when they are made by thirds, the relevance of the reprocessing is not always optimal and the costs are very significant.