Seattle Method

Knowledge  is the most precious kind of information. Knowledge is accumulated, trusted, shared, interpreted information which is understood within some context giving the information meaning . Meaning is not something inherent. Meaning is consciously and deliberately produced through shared human systems, shaped by context, and sustained by communities of stakeholders. A knowledge organization system (KOS) is a broad but neutral umbrella term that seems to be evolving and spans traditional library tools and modern information science and semantic web structures. Knowledge organization systems include a variety of approaches that are fundamentally used to organize, manage, and support retrieval and to make use of information. A knowledge organization system is a tool for organizing that shared, trusted accumulated information which forms knowledge for a group of stakeholders. A knowledge organization system includes capabilities to specify the following in human interpret...