A Framework to Model Metadata for Knowledge Management Tools

Abstract

In recent years many kinds of knowledge management tools are being developed. Most of them have in common that they provide an interface to acquire artifacts along with a certain set of metadata. In this paper, a new framework is presented to model metadata for knowledge management tools and to generate metadata-related program code from this model for different components of the target tool. These components include graphical user interfaces for desktop applications, data base schemes, and metadata-related web client code. Finally, two applications from the knowledge management domain are presented, where this framework is successfully integrated to reduce development time substantially.