Organization and Management of Knowledge

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

a) Lectures;
b) Reading and critical discussion of the literature on the subjects taught;
c) Presentation and discussion of synthesis works.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Course the PhD students should be familiar with the complex issues in organization and knowledge management, which is justified by the fact that in the contemporary context profit and non-profit organizations deal with increasingly higher stocks of information, relevant resource acquisition in the sharing of knowledge and therefore during the processes of decision making and accountability. Thus, they  should know be able to design and redesign processes and complex information flows that ensure the organization, management, retrieval, use and reuse of knowledge, with particular emphasis on the organizational structures of knowledge and knowledge management systems.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Knowledge organization systems: principles and production process.
2. Institutional indexing and collaborative indexing in Web environments.
3. The interoperability of the knowledge organization systems.
4. Knowledge management process: criticize and analysis.
5. Information flow, workflow systems and process management in collaborative environments.
6. Knowledge organization in corporative and sharing environments.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria da Graça Melo Simões

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Synthesis work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Brewster, C., & Wilks, Y. (2004).  Ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri. Sheffield: Department of Computer Science University.

Carlan, E. (2014). Sistemas de organização do conhecimento: uma reflexão no contexto da Ciência da Informação. Brasília: Novas Edições Acadêmicas.

González Lorca, J. (2006). Sistemas workflow: funcionamiento y metodología de implantación. Gijón: Ediciones Trea.

Hislop, D. (2013). Knowledge management in organizations: a critical introduction. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lambe, P. (2007). Organising knowledge: taxonomies, knowledge and organisational effectiveness. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.

Martínez Usero, J. Á., & Lara Navarra, P. (2007). La interoperabilidad de la información. Barcelona: UOC.

Rowley, J., & Hartley, R. (2008). Organizing knowledge: an introduction to managing access to information. Aldershot: Ashgate.