Structured Documentation. An Approach to Identify and Model Knowledge Components for Learning Purposes

Global markets and worldwide collaborative networks demand a new approach to knowledge acquisition, distribution and use. Teaching and learning are no longer restricted to school and university alone but become a lifelong challenge. Organizational knowledge management evolves to a strong success factor in competitive markets. As large parts of organizational knowledge exist in the form of documents, not structured data in database systems, the methodical analysis and structuring of documents becomes an important issue for corporate information management. The potential of semantically structured documents as a platform for cross media organization of corporate knowledge components is demonstrated by the research project ELBE.