Taxonomy for Space: Knowledge Sharing Amongst Countries

Paper number

IAC-09.D5.2.5

Author

Mrs. Jeanne Holm, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Year

2009

Abstract

Traditional knowledge sharing amongst space agencies, industry, and academia has focused on data related to a mission.  However, an opportunity to create a model of both how and what to share amongst countries was proposed last year.  The creation of a high-level taxonomy and governance that would provide a basis for easy knowledge sharing amongst aerospace organizations, academia, and government agencies was agreed to.  Such a taxonomy benefits organizations by providing:
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Overall scheme for organizing content to solve a business problem
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Representation of a predefined organizational structure that covers a range of subjects in a hierarchical arrangement and that shows correlations between subject areas
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Optimized site map or information architecture that allows users to intuitively navigate to content

The work to date will be presented including an:
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Understanding of the challenge for sharing knowledge on missions, between organizations, for integrated applications, and for long-term capture and access to knowledge
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Taxonomy concept and methodology
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Best practices and high-level requirements
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Identification of taxonomies and standards for inclusion
\begin{itemize}\item \end{itemize}Top-level facets

Future work will include metadata mapping, metadata specification, and XML schema development.

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