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A Spatial Hypertext Wiki for Architectural Knowledge Management

Carlos Solís, Nour Ali, Muhammad Ali BabarLero, University of Limerick

{Carlos.Solis,Nour.Ali,Muhammad.AliBabar}@lero.ie

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Contents

• Introduction

• ShyWiki

• ShyWiki applied to Architecture Knowledge

Management

• Conclusions and Further Work

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Knowledge Management

Process

Knowledge

Workpractice

Organization

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Architecture Knowledge Management

AKM introduces processes and practices for identifying, and capturing architectural knowledge to make it transferable, and reusable in the organizations.

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Wikis and KM

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We propose ShyWiki for AKM

•Create notes

•Edit notes

•Delete notes

•Move notes

•Group notes

•Resize notes

•Transclude

notes

•Label links

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ShyWiki applied to Architecture Knowledge Management

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ShyWiki Architecture Knowledge-Sharing Workspace Structure

WorkSpace

Interface

Collaborative

ServicesDecision

Making

Support

Activity

Awareness

Spatial Hypertext Wiki

KM

Support

AKMSupport

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Architecture Knowledge Management Support

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Architecture Knowledge Management Support

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Decision support

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Decision Support in ShyWiki

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Activity Awareness

• The asynchronous cooperation in a Wiki is provided by: blocking and versioning.

• Other mechanism of asynchronous cooperation is using the wiki to represent the state of the tasks.

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Activity Awareness

Task-1

Project Wiki Page John Doe Wiki Page

Task-2

Risk task area

Task-3

Task-2 Task-2

Task-2

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Conclusions and further work

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Conclusions

• ShyWiki can be used to provide a lightweight knowledge sharing workspace.

• The architecture and design decisions can be captured.

• It provides basic activity awareness.

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Further work

• Extended Case Study on Software AKM.

• Usability test.

• Visual and Spatial query language.

• Context Aware Notes

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Thank you.Questions?