Scientometrics, Knowledge Management, and Social Network Analysis

Knowledge can be categorised as explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge. So, when we hear the word “knowledge management system”, we’ll expect to see the system to be able to capture both the explicit and the implicit knowledge. However, this is not necessary the case.

Carloz Mendez drawed the diagram of what tools can be used to capture both type of knowledge as shown below:

Rather than suggesting certain proprietary knowledge management system, Mendez has listed some open source tools that can be used as knowledge management system as can be seen in his presentation.