ShyWiki for AKM

LERO© 2006 THE IRISH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE

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


Contents

• Introduction

• ShyWiki

• ShyWiki applied to Architecture Knowledge

Management

• Conclusions and Further Work


Knowledge Management

Process

Knowledge

Workpractice

Organization


Architecture Knowledge Management

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


Wikis and KM


We propose ShyWiki for AKM

•Create notes

•Edit notes

•Delete notes

•Move notes

•Group notes

•Resize notes

•Transclude

notes

•Label links


ShyWiki applied to Architecture Knowledge Management


ShyWiki Architecture Knowledge-Sharing Workspace Structure

WorkSpace

Interface

Collaborative

ServicesDecision

Making

Support

Activity

Awareness

Spatial Hypertext Wiki

KM

Support

AKMSupport


Architecture Knowledge Management Support


Decision support


Decision Support in ShyWiki


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.


Activity Awareness

Task-1

Project Wiki Page John Doe Wiki Page

Task-2

Risk task area

Task-3

Task-2 Task-2

Task-2


Conclusions and further work


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.


Further work

• Extended Case Study on Software AKM.

• Usability test.

• Visual and Spatial query language.

• Context Aware Notes


Thank you.Questions?

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