
Chapter 15 Knowledge Management and Business Metadata
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15.4 Business Metadata and Tacit Knowledge
The relationship between knowledge management and business metadata becomes
a little weak and tenuous when the discussion turns to tacit knowledge, however.
Tacit knowledge does not easily lend itself to articulation and transformation into
business metadata. Here’s part of Wikipedia’s formal definition of tacit knowledge:
Tacit knowledge consists often of habits and culture that we do not recognize in
ourselves. In the field of knowledge management the concept of tacit knowledge
refers to a knowledge which is only known to you and hard to share ...