Current Limitations in
Knowledge Management
Technologies
l Absence of standards and tools in the areas of:
Metadata management, Attribute Mapping
XML emerging rapidly!
Relationship management
Cross-repository search
Thesaurus standards and tools – ISO but hard to get!
l Human indexing or taxonomy definition required for
meaningful classification
2-3 attribute UI barrier for creators
Taxonomy creation requires at least 1 technical expert
and “n” subject matter experts
Tag differences lead to proliferation of incompatible
portals
l Limited presentation capabilities of HTML