Knowledge Architects Course

Course Objectives

This 5-day course equips experienced Knowledge Engineers with the skills necessary to fulfil the role of a Knowledge Architect. At the end of the course, attendees are able to:

- Use all of the functionality in all of the PCPACK5 tools

- Manipulate the files that define and store knowledge bases, publications templates and knowledge webs

- Set-up and customise PCPACK5 for use by multiple employees across an organisation

- Make decisions concerning future versions of PCPACK and associated knowledge technologies

- Support Knowledge Engineers with their projects by providing technical help and methodological advice

- Be more capable of making strategic decisions concerning Knowledge Engineering methods in the context of Knowledge Managements

Course Content

The course includes the following:

- Using knowledge elicitation techniques effectively to capture and validate knowledge. The emphasis here is on the selection and deployment of the optimal techniques for a given project.

- Defining ontology templates based on the project scope and content of transcripts and documentation. The emphasis here is on the definition of concept classes, relationships and attributes for a given project.

- Using attributes and values to describe the properties of other knowledge objects, such as the use of attributes with relationships.

- Creating and editing ontology templates in PCPACK5, including the use of read-only functionality to protect the ontology template.

- Creating, modifying and assigning annotation templates in PCPACK5, including the modification of style-sheet files.

- Creating, modifying and using advanced features in ladders and matrices.

- Defining diagram templates and using advanced diagram functions, such as links between diagrams and diagram preferences.

- Techniques for simplifying data input, such as the use of the object attributes dialog box.

- Installing and setting-up PCPACK5, such as creating users and roles, and defining access rights. This will include discussion of the issues of validation and configuration management.

- Customising publication templates by editing html, javascript, xsl and css files.

- Working with the internal structure of a knowledge base directory, including the xml files and other supporting files. The emphasis is on methods for modifying a knowledge base that cannot be achieved using PCPACK tools.

- Understanding the functionality and uses of the next generation of PCPACK (PCPACK6 and PCPACK7), including use with the Semantic Web.

- Establishing best practices in knowledge engineering and knowledge management, and addressing common problems found in knowledge acquisition projects.