Synthesizing design and informing science rationales for driving a decentralized generative knowledge management agenda
dc.contributor.author | Schmitt, Ulrich | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Gill, T. Grandon | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-24T12:27:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-24T12:27:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.description | CITATION: Schmitt, U. & Gill, T. G. 2019. Synthesizing design and informing science rationales for driving a decentralized generative knowledge management agenda. Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 22:1-18, doi:10.28945/4264. | |
dc.description | The original publication is available at https://www.informingscience.org | |
dc.description.abstract | Aim/Purpose: In a world of rapidly expanding complexity and exponentially increasing data availability, IT-based knowledge management tools will be needed to manage and curate available information. This paper looks at a particular tool architecture that has been previously proposed: The Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS). The specific focus is on how the proposed architecture conforms to design science principles that relate to how it is likely to evolve. Background: We first introduce some recent informing science and design science research frameworks, then examine how the PKMS architecture would conform to these. Methodology: The approach taken is conceptual analysis. Contribution: The analysis provides a clearer understanding of how the proposed PKMS would serve the diverse-client ambiguous-target (DCAT) informing scenario and how it could be expected to evolve. Findings: We demonstrate how the PKMS informing architecture can be characterized as a “social machine” that appears to conform to a number of principles that would facilitate its long-term evolution. Future Research: The example provided by the paper could serve as a model future research seeking to integrate design science and informing science in the study of IT artefacts. | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | https://www.informingscience.org/Publications/4264?Source=%2FJournals%2FInformingSciJ%2FArticles%3FVolume%3D22-2019 | |
dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
dc.format.extent | 18 pages ; illustrations | |
dc.identifier.citation | Schmitt, U. & Gill, T. G. 2019. Synthesizing design and informing science rationales for driving a decentralized generative knowledge management agenda. Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 22:1-18, doi:10.28945/4264 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1521-4672 (online) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1547-9684 (print) | |
dc.identifier.other | doi:10.28945/4264 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123498 | |
dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Informing Science Institute | |
dc.rights.holder | Authors retain copyright | |
dc.subject | Knowledge management -- Technological innovations -- Research | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Tacit knowledge -- Management -- Research | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Computer software -- Development | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Software architecture -- Development | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Digital platform ecosystem | en_ZA |
dc.title | Synthesizing design and informing science rationales for driving a decentralized generative knowledge management agenda | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |