The evolution in digital knowledge management has been one of the steepest curves in human history and it continues at a staggering pace. The now ubiquitous [www] of the web has been popular for barely a dozen years, and the next fundamental revolution is already brewing.

Semantic technologies, leveraging the power of machine-readable, self-descriptive data and information collections, are set to transform the linked document network of today's internet into a richly interwoven knowledge network. By some estimates, the trend towards the "executable web" will be as profound as the disruption introduced by the first web.[1]

Information and Knowledge Management Solutions

We bring an intelligent and well-seasoned perspective to the issue of enterprise knowledge management. BoaB principles have been involved in online information architectures since the days of PPP and SLIP connections, working with organisations from the minute to the national in scale.

For many organisations, the basic issues have been slow to change. It is still challenging to coax high-grade content from domain experts, good documentation is hard to come by, and even librarians find it a monumental challenge to manage all the metadata that needs to be produced and maintained.

Into this rapidly-evolving landscape, BoaB brings three broad solution strategies whose natural progression make it relatively easy to locate an appropriate approach for each client:

[1] Communications, Brand presence, Public interface: These are the usual domains in which a corporate website operates. Over the past decade organisations have learned that a content-rich, relevant, and interactive website is core business. A research organisation must position itself with an eye to competitive advantage and at the same time deliver benefits to its partners and the broader community.

[2] Collaboration spaces, virtual organisation support, knowledge repositories: Increasingly, research organisations are expected to participate in global online collaborations and virtual organisations. Knowledge management becomes a key issue. Researchers often have very idiosyncratic views of how to manage their information assets. A proliferation of ad hoc arrangements can involve significant administrative overheads and can introduce unintended liabilities.

BoaB have developed a highly configurable collaboration framework to support your expectations for shared document workflow, role-based privacy spaces, user account controls, data access policy management, and a distributed publishing toolkit.

[3] Knowledge management and leveraged networks: Looking across the research and commercialisation landscape, we see many opportunities to improve the effectiveness of knowledge production and marketing. BoaB are exploring the potential of semantic technologies to help organisations efficiently leverage their research output to broader research and commercial networks.

[1] See Mills Davis, Project 10x Semantic Wave 2008 (http://www.project10x.com/about.html)