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Sharing Management
Management
Knowledge sharing virtual worlds require managing the shared content. The content
not only requires management for storage and publishing in different forms and repositories,
for communication, for referencing and for analysis, but it also requires entitlement
and classification.
Classification
All components and resources each have sources, type, content, as well as relations
and references. Identification and classification enable and structure these resources,
as well as their their embedded knowledge, providing a base for rich access and reference.
Referencing
Knowledge sharing virtual worlds require more than just an encyclopedic or alphabetic
ordering. Metaphors can provide rich referencing models that integrate and structure
the user experience, as well as its usefulness and effectiveness.
Entitlement
Building on classification, content entitlement is a fundamental component of knowledge
sharing virtual worlds, ensuring that each user always has access to all the content
that each is entitled to, in any given context, and that this content access can be
tracked.
Standards
A sharing prerequisite, compatibility is also a fundamental component of knowledge
sharing virtual worlds. Compatibility is required at the system, platform, and formats
levels, as well as for the entitlement information. To ensure that content and resource
entitlement is compatible between systems, entitlement standards are required. These
standards will also enable the medical patient virtual profile, as well as collaboration,
new types of applications, and improved productivity.Entitlement standardizationefforts have starting and, as everyone is affected by the information sharing crisis,
each should get involved, at least by supporting the on-linepetitionfor international entitlement standards.
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