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1.4 What Is Knowledge?
In order to manage something you must be able to recognize it.
Knowledge does not exist in isolation though. It is not something that
can be picked up or locked in a company vault. Indeed, some philoso-
phers believe that knowledge is a human construct that cannot exist
outside the mind of a person. It is worth considering the relationship
between knowledge and concepts like data and information. Computers
have been managing data (as in database management systems) for
decades. You are also probably familiar with the term
information sys-
tems and perhaps have even heard of knowledge-based systems.
Data, ...