Tip #2882 - Knowledge Base
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Knowledge
Base
Have you ever heard
of this term? It's not used a lot, but it does have something to do with
computers, so it's helpful to know about it. Basically, a knowledge base
is a special kind of database for knowledge management within a computer.
It holds all of the computerized information for a system and it is able
to retrieve the knowledge as well.
There are two major
categories for knowledge bases and those are machine-readable and human-readable.
The latter doesn't have much involvement with computers, but the machine-readable
base is stored in a computer-readable form with a set of data that comes
with rules that explain the knowledge in a logical manner.
The most important
side of a knowledge base is the quality of information it holds. The best
ones have well written articles that are updated regularly, a good information
retrieval system and a stable content and classification format. All of
these can be referred back to a search engine. Also, just for your information,
you may sometimes see the words knowledge and base connected together
as one. It's common for it to be all one word (knowledgeable), just like
database.
~ Erin
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