
Chapter 15 Knowledge Management and Business Metadata
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Not only do business metadata and knowledge management intersect, but
they are by definition intertwined. Both have the same overarching purpose:
to provide value to the organization by identifying, creating, representing, and
distributing knowledge for reuse, awareness, and learning [rephrased from
the Wikipedia reference quoted above]. Business metadata also constitutes a
chunk of the business knowledge that knowledge management is supposed to
manage!
15.3.1 Knowledge Management Generates Business Metadata
Artifacts
The main difference between knowledge management and business metadata ...