KfE Practice is the practice of all practitioners of “knowledge sciences”
Each of these five sciences are developing currently with three main objectives in mind:
- They support the creation of new knowledge in various domains (in that sense they are “enabling” of existing science)
- They perform the function of managing new knowledge and historical content assets.
(This includes library sciences, much of KM technology as currently practiced. This also includes numerous “models” that are currently available for the management, storage, and sharing of content in various organizational and community systems.)
- They perform the task of enabling the average practitioner to perform his/ her daily tasks better.
(This includes “competence development” training, etc. and various kinds of methods and techniques for managing knowledge-based tasks better, presenting knowledge better, organizing and sharing information in specific domains such as accounting data, desktop numerical data, publishing, etc.)
One of the central challenges faced in the past decades has been the growing importance of all these five sciences and the increasing difficulties faced by people in all three types/ categories described above.
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